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Classification ; Clinical Study

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Child* ; Humans

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Acupuncture* ; Tattooing*

Left ventficular ejection times were measured by four different methods in 200 healthy males and females from the polygraphic tracings including an apexcardiogram, a phonocardiogram and a carotid pulse tracing. The results obtained by each method were compared and the adequacy of each method was critically reviewed. It was felt that the method measuring the left ventricular ejection time from the carotid pulse tracing was the most reasonable. However, there was a significant correlation between the carotid-derived values and those obtained by other methods, thus, regression equations for the relationship of the latter values to the fromer were obtainable.
Female ; Humans ; Male

OBJECTIVE: Early maternal separation (EMS) during the development has been known to influence the alteration of behavior in adulthood. Nitric oxide (NO) may have been implicated to play a crucial role in the neurodevelopment as an intracellular and intercellular messenger. This study was designed to investigate the neurochemical mechanism of the behavioral changes resulting from EMS during the development in juvenile rats. METHODS: Experimental group consisted of subjects that were removed and weaned from the day on postnatal day 15. Control group were the litters that experienced no EMS until postnatal day 21. On postnatal day 15 and 36, the locomotor activity (LA) was measured. On postnatal day 36 the behavioral changes in the forced swimming test (FST) were also measured. Test drugs were intraperitoneally injected including MK-801 (0.5 mg/kg), N omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NA, 20 mg/kg), paroxetine (20 mg/kg), and bupropion (150 mg/kg). RESULTS:EMS produced the decrease of LA significantly in juvenile rats (p<0.001). Both MK-801 and L-NA increased LA in experimental group (p<0.001) and control group (p<0.05). The degree of increase was higher in experimental group than in control group. However, both paroxetine and bupropion increased LA in experimental group (p<0.001, p<0.05), but not in control group. In the FST, immobility was significantly increased in experimental group compared with control group (p<0.001). The increases of immobility in experimental group were abolished after injecting MK-801, L-NA, paroxetine, and bupropion, respectively. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that EMS during the development can lead to behavioral abnormalities in juvenile rats. The underlying neurochemical mechanism of this behavioral changes may be, in part, related to the glutamatergic NMDA-NO pathway. This suggests that glutamatergic NMDA-NO pathway vulnerable to stress may predispose to depression.
Animals ; Bupropion ; Depression ; Dizocilpine Maleate ; Motor Activity ; Nitric Oxide ; Nitroarginine ; Paroxetine ; Rats ; Swimming

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Blepharoptosis*

A tender, non-healing ulcer of 3 months' duration developed on the tongue tip of a 51-year-old male with active pulmonary tuberculosis. Acid-fast bacilli were grown in the tissue and sputum cultures. The patient was anergic to PPD skin test before the treatment and IL-2 productivity was significantly decreased. Sections from the tongue tip showed ulceration, infiltration of neutrophils and tuberculoid granulornas accompanying caseation necroses in the dermis. The ulcer healed after administration of anti-tuberculosis medication for 2 months.
Dermis ; Efficiency ; Humans ; Interleukin-2 ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Neutrophils ; Skin Tests ; Sputum ; Tongue* ; Tuberculosis* ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; Ulcer

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Atrophy* ; Temporal Lobe*

Metastatic bone tumors can lead to development of pathological fractures which may cause incessant pain. Hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria may develop secondary to skeletal metastasis and recumbency, leading to death from cardiac and renal sequeale. The proper surgical treatments of the metastatic bone tumor offer many advantages in relief of pain, simplifying nursing care, restoring resonable mobility and prevent complications. The authors reviewed 24 cases of metastatic bone tumors which received surgical treatment at Severance Hospital from January 1976 to March 1982. The results were obtained as follows: 1. Twenty four among three hundred patients with metastatic bone tumors were treated surgically. 2. There was no sexual preference and 66.7% were observed in the age of 51 to 70 group. 3. The most common site of operation was the femur. 4. The methods of operation were as follows: Resectionoflesion.....................5 Replacement with prosthesis..........3 Open reduction and internal..........10 Spinal fusion..........................2 Laminectomy............................4 5. All cases had received various types of ancillary treatment: radiation in 8 cases, 131I radioactive isotope in 1 case, chemotherapy in 2 cases, hormone therapy in 1 case, radiation and chemotherapy in 3 cases and conservative pain control in 9 cases. 6. Among the 15 followed cases, nine survived more than 6 months and 3 cases longer than 1 year after surgery. The pain was relieved markedly in twenty-three patients, and ambulated well with brace support.
Braces ; Drug Therapy ; Femur ; Fractures, Spontaneous ; Humans ; Hypercalcemia ; Hypercalciuria ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Nursing Care