{"title":"Experimental study of renal sympathetic nerve activity during left ventricular assist device pumping.","authors":"T Yambe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To determine the effect of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) pumping on sympathetic tone, renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) was recorded in acute animal experiments. Our TH-7B pneumatically driven sac type ventricular assist device (VAD) was used in 7 adult mongrel dogs. RSNA was detected by use of bipolar electrodes attached to the left renal sympathetic nerve under conditions of various LVAD pumping modes. All hemodynamic data and the RSNA were calculated with a personal computer system. In general, LVAD assistance produced increased systolic aortic pressure, increased pulmonary artery flow and decreased left atrial pressure, which caused decreased RSNA, especially in the counterpulsation mode. These results suggest that renal vascular resistance might be reduced in parallel with the decrease of RSNA. Thus, counterpulsation mode LVAD assistance has the more evident effect in preventing acute prerenal renal failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"37 1-4","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13258984","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}
R Kanamaru, C Ishioka, Y Konishi, A Ishikawa, H Shibata, A Wakui
{"title":"Damage to DNA strand and the effects of anticancer drugs.","authors":"R Kanamaru, C Ishioka, Y Konishi, A Ishikawa, H Shibata, A Wakui","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer chemotherapy is, in a sense, similar to the treatment of infectious disease with antibiotics. The main mechanism of action is on DNA and its precursor, and in the process that anticancer drugs exert the effect on cancer cells, the cells always have abnormal metabolism or destruction of DNA. The main cellular target of most alkylating agents, or anticancer antibiotics is DNA, however, among the anticancer drug newly synthesized, there are some compounds which exert the action on DNA. Quinocarmycin, KT6149, which is a derivative of MMC, YM534, which possesses a platelet agglutinating activity, and MCNU, a nitrosourea compound were studied on the anticancer activity and on damage to DNA strand, and it was found that the lethal effect was deeply concerned with single strand scission of DNA.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13782134","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}
M Suzuki, K Hori, S Saito, S Tanda, I Abe, H Sato, H Sato
{"title":"Functional characteristics of tumor vessels: selective increase in tumor blood flow.","authors":"M Suzuki, K Hori, S Saito, S Tanda, I Abe, H Sato, H Sato","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This experiment was carried out to elucidate how tumor microcirculation differs from that of normal tissues. Pressure-flow relationship was examined in normal rat tissues, uninvolved tissues in tumor-bearing rats, transplanted AH109A solid tumors, and primary tumors induced by 3-methylcholanthrene. Tumor blood flow was measured by the hydrogen clearance technique. The blood pressure was elevated by continuous iv infusion of angiotensin II. Elevation of blood pressure produced a several-fold increase in tumor blood flow without increasing blood flow in normal tissue and uninvolved tissue in tumor-bearing rats. The increase was selective to tumor tissues as long as the mean arterial blood pressure remained under about 150 mmHg. The lower the resting tumor blood flow, the greater the increase in the flow was at induced hypertension. There were no significant differences in the resting blood flow and in the rate of flow change at induced hypertension between the intramuscularly transplanted tumor, the intrahepatically transplanted tumor, and the sc transplanted tumor. These results indicate that the delivery of systemically administered anticancer drugs could be selectively enhanced in tumor tissues by induced hypertension.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"37-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13782135","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}
T Umemura, K Takada, Y Nakaji, Y Ogawa, E Kamata, T Kaneko, M Tobe, Y Kurokawa
{"title":"Comparison of the toxicity of p-dichlorobenzene (p-DCB) administered to male F344 rats orally or by the inhalation route.","authors":"T Umemura, K Takada, Y Nakaji, Y Ogawa, E Kamata, T Kaneko, M Tobe, Y Kurokawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The organ distribution and toxicity of p-DCB were compared in rats after either inhalation or oral administration. Male F344 rats were exposed to 500 or 125 ppm for 24 hr in a whole body inhalation chamber (H and L groups) or received a single dose of 300 mg/kg by gavage (PO group). The concentrations of p-DCB in the serum, liver, kidney and fatty tissues were measured by gas chromatography at intervals during and up to 24 hr after the treatment. Peak serum values for the L and H groups were lower than in the PO animals, but the organ/serum distribution ratios of p-DCB tended to be higher, in some cases markedly, in rats receiving the inhalation treatment. Significant increases in the levels of blood urea nitrogen, hepatic glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and glutamic pyruvate transaminase and significant decreases in the levels of serum total cholesterol were observed only in the inhalation groups. Microscopically, the appearance of numerous eosinophilic droplets, together with swelling and desquamation of the proximal tubular epithelium of the kidney was especially noteworthy in H and L p-DCB treated groups. Thus, both biochemical and histopathological abnormalities induced by p-DCB were more pronounced in rats administered the compound by the inhalation route.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13782132","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":"Detection of cytomegalovirus in paraffin-embedded lung tissue sections.","authors":"Y Honda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attempts were made to detect cytomegalovirus (CMV) in paraffin-embedded lung tissue sections from five patients with malignant disease by the immunofluorescence and immunoperoxidase methods with application of monoclonal antibodies against CMV and by localization of DNA by the method of in situ hybridization using a biotinylated probe. In the immunofluorescence method, the monoclonal antibody 1C6 stained a large number of CMV-infected cells. However, nonspecific staining of the bronchoepithelial cells was a disadvantage of this method. In the immunoperoxidase staining, the monoclonal antibodies E. 13 and CCH2 gave highly sensitive and specific results. These monoclonal antibodies stained the nuclei of the infected cells even in the absence of viral inclusions. In the viral DNA probe technique, three specimens were found to contain hybridizing cells. The DNA probe detected not only cytopathic cells but also normal-appearing infected cells. The number of cells stained by the DNA probe was much smaller than that stained by the immunoperoxidase method. The author concludes that the immunoperoxidase technique using monoclonal antibodies against CMV is useful for the diagnosis of CMV infection in the paraffin-embedded lung tissue. Localization of DNA by the method of in situ hybridization is not as useful as the immunoperoxidase method because of lower sensitivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13705528","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":"Tumor induction in mice administered neonatally with 1,2-dimethylhydrazine.","authors":"K Fujii, H Komano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>1,2-Dimethylhydrazine was given subcutaneously to neonatal ICR mice, and animals were observed for one year. The tumors of lung and liver, malignant lymphoma, and other tumors were induced. In the mice given DMH 30 mg/kg of body weight, two mice developed colonic tumor, and the incidence of colonic tumor was low.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"46-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13782136","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":"Acute toxicity tests on 113 environmental chemicals.","authors":"R Hasegawa, Y Nakaji, Y Kurokawa, M Tobe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute toxicity tests on 113 environmental chemicals were conducted by the order of the Japanese government agencies. the LD50s or LC50s for 23 household chemicals, 11 medical drugs, 10 drug additives, 20 food additives, 13 industrial chemicals, 14 environmental pollutants, 12 agricultural chemicals and 5 organic solvents are presented together with the major toxic signs and symptoms and macroscopic changes in tissues. These toxicity data will be useful as an information source for regulatory purposes and also for prediction of the potential for acute toxicity of a wide variety of new chemicals.</p>","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"36 1-4","pages":"10-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13782133","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":"Current and future aspects of cancer diagnosis with PET.","authors":"T Matsuzawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"35 1-4","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14394109","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":"Preclinical and clinical biochemical modulation of 5-fluorouracil by leucovorin and uridine.","authors":"G J Peters","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76727,"journal":{"name":"The science reports of the research institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku","volume":"35 1-4","pages":"15-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14209266","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}