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Evidence for an inhibitory role of β-endorphin and other opioids on human total T rosette formation
β-endorphin, met-enkephalin, leu-enkephalin and morphine significantly inhibit rosette formation between human T lymphocytes and sheep red blood cells. This effect is completely reversed by naloxone, a specifi...
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Intracerebroventricular injection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a patient with congenital indifference to pain induces analgesia in rats
CSF from a patient with congential indifference to pain was found to produce analgesia in the rat following intracerebroventricular injections. The analgesic effect was attenuated by pretreatment with naloxone...
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Advances in the determination of volatile organic solvents and other organic pollutants by gas chromatography with thermal desorption sampling and injection
The problem of the separation of 34 volatile organic chlorinated compounds is solved by using three different GC columns selected according to the needs of the particular separation required. The effect of wat...
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LH-RH ANALOGUE TREATMENT OF CENTRAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY: MONITORING BY BIOLOGICAL ASSAY FOR LH
Five children (2 M, 3 F) aged 3.5-9.5 yrs, with central precocious puberty and 1 boy (12 yrs old)with corpus callosum agenesis and sexual aggressive behaviour, have been treated with LH-RH Analogue (Buserelin)...
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Captopril as an Antiproteinuric Agent in Patients with Chronic Glomerulonephritis
In membranous nephropathy patients with nephrotic range proteinuria have a poor prognosis (1, 2), while those with asymptomatic proteinuria show a more benigne course (1, 3, 4). Moreover, it has been reported ...
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Immunoreactive beta-endorphin levels in cerebrospinal fluid of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: relationship with glucocorticoid therapy and neurological complications
Neurological disorders, such as seizures, are not infrequently associated with antileukemic therapy. It has been hypothesized that a disrupted peptidergic transmission between neurons could be the cellular bas...
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Immunohistochemical localization of growth hormone-releasing hormone in human gonads
Human gonads were examined for the presence of ir growth hormone-releasing-hormone. We demonstrated the presence of immu-nostainable cells both in ovarian and in testicular tissue using a non-crossreactive ant...
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Efficacy of pyrimethamine for the prevention of donor-acquired Toxoplasma gondii infection in heart and heart-lung transplant patients
Seven (11%) of the first 65 patients who received heart transplants at Papworth Hospital were mismatched for Toxoplasma gondii. Of these, four (57%) experienced T. gondii infection and two died. The remaining two...
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Piroxicam-induced analgesia: Evidence for a central component which is not opioid mediated
Piroxicam is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug with a potent analgesic effect. In order to establish whether the analgesic action of Piroxicam has a central component, we studied the effect of the drug on ...
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Thyroid volume in type 1 diabetes patients without overt thyroid disease
An association between insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1) and thyroid diseases has long been reported, but the morphological evaluation of the thyroid in type 1 diabetes patients without overt thyroi...
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Involvement of chromosome 6 in endometrial cancer
Cytogenetic investigation was performed on direct preparations of 15 endometrial cancers showing different histotypes. Clonal abnormalities were found in 11 out of 13 analysable cases. The modal chromosome num...
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Cryopreservation of white poplar (Populus alba L.) by vitrification of in vitro-grown shoot tips
Shoot tips from in vitro-grown, cold-hardened stock plants of white poplar (Populus alba L.) were successfully cryopreserved at –196 °C by one-step vitrification. After preculturing at 5 °C for 2 days on hormo...
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Re-dosing of prostaglandin-E1 versus prostaglandin-E1 plus phentolamine in male erectile dysfunction: a dynamic color power Doppler study
During penile pharmacotesting, anxiety may overcome complete smooth muscle relaxation and lead to false positive diagnosis of organic male erectile dysfunction (ED). We tested the efficacy and safety of re-dos...
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Reply to HC Porst
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Open AccessSYT-SSX fusion genes and prognosis in synovial sarcoma
A case series of 64 synovial sarcomas was characterized for the SYT-SSX fusion transcripts and statistically analysed in order to correlate molecular data with prognosis and morphology. SYT-SSX1 fusion transcr...
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A Planck-Like Problem for Quantum Charged Black Holes
Motivated by the parallelism existing between the puzzles of classical physics at the beginning of the XXth century and the current paradoxes in the search of a quantum theory of gravity, we give, in analogy w...
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Oral contrast agents in MRI of the gastrointestinal tract
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Hijacking Rho GTPases by protein toxins and apoptosis: molecular strategies of pathogenic bacteria
Certain bacterial toxins and type-III-translocated virulence factors have a peculiar property: they exert part of their actions by modulating Rho GTPases. These toxins target the actin cytoskeleton of host cel...
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Elevated CO2 Reduces Vessel Diameter and Lignin Deposition in Some Legume Plants Grown in Mini-FACE Rings
Studies on stem (and leaf) structure and histology of a semi-natural grassland community, permanently growing in mini-FACE rings under elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 (560 μmol mol−1) are presented. Hi...
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‘The limited practical value of color Doppler sonography in the differential diagnosis of men with erectile dysfunction’ by Slob et al: A different point of view