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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

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Blepharoptosis*

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Atrophy* ; Temporal Lobe*

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

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

The diagnosis of carcinoma in situ of urinary bladder is difficult in that the symptoms and cystoscopic findings are nonspecific. The cytology of urine could be helpful for diagnosis of carcinoma in situ of urinary bladder. We present a case of bladder washing cytology of carcinoma in situ. A 54 year old man presented with dysuria for 1 year. Cystoscopic findings revealed multifocal reddish trabeculated lesions. The bladder washing cytology revealed rather uniform tumor cells which were singly scattered or forming syncytium in the clean background. The nuclei were round to oval with inconspicious nucleoli. The cystoscopic biopsy revealed typical histologic features of carcinoma in situ of urinary bladder.
Biopsy ; Carcinoma in Situ* ; Diagnosis ; Dysuria ; Giant Cells ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Urinary Bladder*