Predictive value of gelatin particle agglutination test (GPAT) in early leprosy diagnosis. GPAT using semi-synthetic trisaccharide antigen (manufactured by FUJIREBIO INC, Japan and provided by WHO) has been applied to 680 households contacts of leprosy cases and 350 healthy people living in areas of leprosy. Some interesting conclusions have been made by the authors: - GPAT was positive in 20% of household contacts as compared to only 3.1% of apparently non- contact people. - Among 135 household contacts showing positive GPAT, 17 have developed leprosy (12.6%), while among 884 people with GPAT negative, none (0%) has developed the diseases during the same period of follow-up. - In children, a high titer of antibodies constitutes a valuable indicator of high risk in developing the disease: 63.1% of them developed leprosy while it was only 7.7% in adult. -More interesting, 100% children with GPAT positive at serum dilution of 1:64 or over and whose father/ mother being leprosy patients have developed the disease. - GPAT has a important role in early leprosy diagnosis
Leprosy ; Gelatin ; diagnosis

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Bone Marrow ; Gelatin ; Humans

A case of chondroma of soft tissue of right hand in 23-year old man was reported. The presenting symptom was a slow growing mass, causing mild tenderness. Radiologic examination revealed a well demarked and lobulated calcified mass, was located extraskeletally. Specimen exised from soft tisssue of the hypothenar area of the hand was 5×4×3.5cm sized mass, had gelatinous and gray-whitish appearance. On microscopical examination, the tumor was classified as a chondroma of soft tissue.
Chondroma ; Gelatin ; Hand

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Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable* ; Hemorrhage* ; Thrombin*

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Gelatin* ; Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome*

No abstract available.
Bone Marrow* ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular* ; Gelatin*

No abstract available.
Bone Matrix* ; DNA* ; Gelatin* ; Osteoblasts*

A woman who had used a Chinese tea drug, choreito, for treatment of chronic renal diseases over years, experienced lead poisoning with blood lead concentration over 600 μg/l on admission to the hospital. We found that one of the ingredients in choreito, kasseki, was commonly contaminated by lead (30-50 μg/g of kasseki), but this level of lead contamination in the drug had never caused poisoning previously. Our experiment indicates that another ingredient, gelatin, has lead-extracting ability and an adhesive quality on the walls of teapots. Thus, the possible causes of the toxicity seemed to be: (1) the lead in the kasseki, which was extracted by gelatin that had adhered to the wall of the pot, accumulated in large quantities for a long period of time (the patient used the same pot for more than a year without washing); and (2) a large quantity of the accumulated lead was released into the decocted drug day by day and induced the intoxication. In all, 37.2 mg of lead was extracted by 10 extractions of 4% acetic acid from the patient’s pot. Repeated extraction (four times) of lead from the pot which was made by the same manufacturer in the same lot of the patient’s pot with acetic acid, only totally 18.5 μg of lead was detected.Also, it is evident that the intoxication was due to an improper method of decoction, that is, the patient did not prepare the tea according to Japanese pharmsacopoedia. The patient decocted all of the ingredients at the same time.
Lead ; Patients ; g <3> ; Tea ; Gelatin

The author report a huge torcular meningioma, fed only by right occipital artery, which was removed after the preoperative transfemoral catheter embolization with gelfoam plugs to reduce operative blood loss.
Arteries ; Catheters* ; Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable ; Meningioma*

This study investigated the boundary of anserine bursa with the recommended injection site and shape on the insertion area of pes anserinus (PA), with the aim of improving clinical practice. Eighty six legs from 45 Korean cadavers were investigated. The mixed gelatin solution was injected to identify the shape of anserine bursa, and then the insertion site of the PA tendons was exposed completely and carefully dissected to identify the shape of the PA. The sartorius was inserted into the superficial layer and gracilis, and the semitendinosus was inserted into the deep layer on the medial surface of the tibia. The number of the semitendinosus tendons at the insertion site varied: 1 in 66% of specimens, 2 in 31%, and 3 in 3%. The gracilis and semitendinosus tendons were connected to the deep fascia of leg. Overall, the shape of the anserine bursa was irregularly circular. Most of the anserine bursa specimens reached the proximal line of the tibia, and some of the specimens reached above the proximal line of the tibia. In the medial view of the tibia, the anserine bursa was located posteriorly and superiorly from the tibia's midline, and it followed the lines of the sartorius muscle. The injection site for anserine bursa should be carried out at 20degrees from the vertical line medially and inferiorly, 15 or 20 mm deeply, and at the point of about 20 mm medial and 12 mm superior from inferomedial point of tibial tuberosity.
Anserine* ; Cadaver ; Fascia ; Gelatin ; Leg ; Tendons ; Tibia