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A comparison of different APTT-reagents, heparin-sensitivity and detection of mild coagulopathies
(1992)
The activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) is widely used to detect coagulation abnormalities or to monitor heparin treatment.
Many commercial aPTT-reagents are available which contain different phospholipid reagents and activators. In the present study 3 aPTT-reagents (aPTT-D, Instrumentation Laboratory, Neothromtin, Behring, PTTa, Boehringer) were compared using a computerized centrifugal analyzer. One aPTT-reagent (Pathromtin, Behring) was tested on a semiautomated coagulometer. Instrument precision was evaluated using aPTT-D as reagent.
Comparative tests were performed on plasma samples of 40 healthy donors, 3 patients with mild von Willebrand's disease (vWd), W patients with heaemophilia or subhaemophilia A, 1 patient with subhaemophilia A and vWd, 8 patients treated with subcutaneous injection of unfractionated heparin (UFH) and 14 patients treated with subcutaneous injection of a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH).
aPTT-D was the most sensitive reagent to detect mild vWd while Pathromtin detected none of these defects. In patients with heamophilia A and subhaemophilia A aPTT-D, Neothromtin and PTTa detected the abnormality in nearly all tested samples while Pathromtin was less sensitive.
Patients treated with subcutaneously applied UFH or LMWH often had a prolonged aPTTt especially when aPTT-D and Neothromtin were used as reagents.
Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is the main cause of herpes genitalis, a recurrent sexually transmitted disease. By the use of routine Serologie methods (complement fixation test, enzyme immunoassay), virus carriers are difficult to identify because of strong antibody cross reactions with antigens of HSV-1 which is ubiquitously spread throughout the population. We introduce a microtechnique Western blot system loaded with HSV-1 and HSV-2 type-specific and common antigens on separated nitrocellulose strips. By the simultaneous evaluation of Immunologie reactions with both strips, the occurrence of HSV-2 specific antibodies can be sensitively detected in serum specimens containing antibodies to HSV-1. A total of 158 serum specimens were analyzed and the results obtained by Western blot were compared to those of a screening ELISA and virus isolation performed with smears of herpes lesions.
An agreement of 97.9 % was assessed between Western blot and virus isolation to detect an HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection. Less specific serologic results were produced by the screening ELISA on HSV-2 antibodies which correlated in 85.4 % (41/48) with virus isolation and typing. Concerning HSV-2 antibody testing, Western blot and ELISA showed an overall agreement in 89.8 % of the sera investigated.
As shown by our data, the HSV type specific Western blot proved to be a specific, reproducible and standardized technique. It can be utilized for both sero-epidemiological surveys and determination of the HSV immune status.
Zum Screening auf Bence Jones-Proteinurie wird die Immunfixations-Elektrophorese (IFE) des unkonzentrierten Harnes empfohlen. Aufgrund einer Nachweisempfindlichkeit für freie Leichtketten zwischen 9 und 65 mg/1 werden die klinisch relevanten Bence Jones-Proteinurien erfaßt.
Der VK-Wert der Intraassay-Präzision der IFE zum Bence Jones-Proteinnachweis beträgt 12 %, derjenige der Interassay-Präzision 30%.
Mit der Ausbildung eines Zonenphänomens in der IFE beim Screening auf Bence Jones-Proteinurie muß gerechnet werden, wenn die Bence Jones-Proteinausscheidung vom Kappa-Typ über 1,4 g/l und vom Lambda-Typ über 0,7 g/l beträgt.
Die Konzentrationsbestimmung von Bence Jones-Protein sollte mit der Biuret-Methode erfolgen. Mit der Coomassie Brilliant Blau G 250-Methode wird Bence Jones-Protein nur in sehr unterschiedlichem Ausmaß erfaßt.
Young poplar cuttings (Populus nigra L. cv. Loenen and P. maximowiczii Henry x P. nigra L. cv. Rochester) were exposed for six weeks in open-top chambers to realistic concentrations of pollutant mixtures: 1) control; 2) SO2/NOx; 3)O3/ NOx and 4)SO2/O3/NOx. In this sequence of fumigation variants, the degree of influence of the various parameters of the nitrogen metabolism and of premature leaf drop increased very frequently compared to the control plants, P. nigra L. proving to be the more sensitive species.
The elevated Kjeldahl nitrogen content of the fumigated leaves was accompanied by either an increase in free amino acids or in total protein or, in the case of particularly large rises (SO2/O3/NOx variants), by increases in both substance groups. Proteolytic processes as a cause of the elevated content of free amino acids could be excluded to a large extent. A diminished de novo synthesis of proteins obviously led to a shift in the amino acid/protein relationship. In the younger fumigated leaves, the total concentration of free amino acids exceeded the values of the older leaves. The elevated amino acid content of the fumigated leaves was produced to a high degree by the glycolate pathway and the Krebs cycle. The increased turnover of the carbon skeletons was connected with a drastic starch degradation, especially in the older leaves.
The interaction of the amino acid and carbohydrate metabolisms is probably an important regulator in the promotion of rapid growth of young leaves in order to compensate premature leaf loss.
The sesquiterpenoic alcohol nerolidol was separated into its 4 stereoisomers by MPLC of the diastereomeric (1 S, 4 R)-camphanoates.
An analytical GC method was found by which both the enantiomeric pairs of (Z)- and (E)-nerolidol are resolved on a chiral cyclodextrin stationary phase. The olfactoric properties of the nerolidol stereoisomers were investigated.
Thermal decompositions of azo compounds in the gas phase under reduced pressure are further investigated using photoelectron spectroscopic gas analysis. Passing diallyl, diphenyl and phenylmethyl derivatives either through a short-pathway pyrolysis (SPP) apparatus or through an external thermal reactor (ETR) results in the following fragmentations: Under nearly unimolecular conditions (SPP, 10-4 mbar pressure), diallyldiazene decomposes above 600 K to N2 and hexadiene-1,5 with the allyl radical as a detectable intermediate. The PE spectra recorded for diphenyldiazene above 1000 K (ETR, 1-2 mbar pressure) show N2, benzene, as well as traces of diphenyl. Phenylmethyldiazene yields above 800 K (SPP) predominantly N2, toluene, diphenyl and ethane with the methyl radical as the only detectable intermediate. Insertion of quartz wool into the pyrolysis tube (ETR) lowers the fragmentation temperatures, and in addition, above 850 K, HCN and aniline are PE spectroscopically identified. Surprisingly, this second reaction channel can be heterogeneously catalyzed: phenylmethyldiazene decomposes under 10-2 mbar pressure at a [Ni/SiO2] catalyst surface selectively to HCN and aniline.
Reduction of naturally occurring para-and ortho-benzoquinone derivatives M to their respective radical anions M·⊖ can be accomplished under largely aprotic conditions either by cautious low-temperature reaction in THF containing an excess of (2.2.2) cryptand at a potassium mirror or by using the "mild" single electron transfer reagent tetrabutylammonium boranate R4N⊕BH4⊖ in DMF. On addition of soluble alkali tetraphenylborates Me⊕[B(C6H5)4]⊖ , their hitherto unknown radical ion pairs [M·⊖ Me⊕]· and/or triple ion radical cations [Me⊕M·⊖Me⊕]·⊕ form, which might be of biological relevance in molecular carrier and "turn off -turn on" switch processes. On addition of metal perchlorates Me⊕n(ClO4⊖)n with multiply charged counter cations Me⊕n the respective paramagnetic species [M·⊖Me⊕n]·(n-1)⊕ result. Assuming exclusive one-electron transfer reductions without any redox fragmentation reactions, ESR, ENDOR and GENERAL TRIPLE spectra are presented and discussed for the following radical anions and radical ion pairs: mitomycin C (M·⊖ and [M·⊖Mex⊕]·(x-1)⊕ with Me⊕ = Li⊕, Na⊕), streptonigrine (M·⊖ and [M·⊖Lix⊕]·(x-1)⊕), Entobex® (M·⊖ and [M·⊖Me⊕n]·(n-1)⊕ with Me⊕n = Li⊕, Na⊕, Cd⊕⊕, (H5C6)2Tl⊕) as well as brucinequinone ([M·⊖ Me⊕n]·(n-1)⊕ with Me⊕n = Li⊕, Cd⊕⊕, Pb⊕⊕, La⊕⊕⊕).
By analyzing the DSC heating curves and the resulting phase diagrams of the systems of dibromodimethylsilane and 2-, 3- or 4-methylpyridine the existence of the congruently melting addition compounds ((CH3)2SiBr2)2 · (3-methylpyridine) and (CH3)2SiBr2 · (4-methylpyridine)2, and the incongruently melting addition compounds ((CH3)2SiBr2)2 · (2-methylpyridine) and ((CH3)2SiBr2)2 · (4-methylpyridine) could be proved.
Nitric oxide causes ADP-ribosylation and inhibition of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
(1992)
Nitric oxide and nitric oxide-generating agents like 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1) stimulate the mono-ADP-ribosylation of a cytosolic, 39-kDa protein in various tissues. This protein was purified from human platelet cytosol by conventional and fast protein liquid chromatography techniques. N-terminal sequence analysis identified the isolated protein as the glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). Nitric oxide stimulates the auto-ADP-ribosylation of GAPDH in a time and concentration-dependent manner with maximal effects after about 60 min. Associated with ADP-ribosylation is a loss of enzymatic activity. NAD(+)-free enzyme is not inhibited by SIN-1, indicating the absolute requirement of NAD+ as the substrate of the ADP-ribosylation reaction. Inhibition of the glycolytic enzyme GAPDH may be relevant as a cytotoxic effect of NO complementary to its inhibitory actions on iron-sulfur enzymes like aconitase and electron transport proteins of the respiratory chain.
Juden, Philister und romantische Intellektuelle : Überlegungen zum Antisemitismus in der Romantik
(1992)
[...] Verschärfte Angriffe auf Juden fallen oft mit historischen Krisen zusammen. So grundiert auch hier die besondere Krisensituation der Napoleonischen Kriege den Konflikt, während ihn die Auseinandersetzung mit den Hardenbergschen Reformen in Preußen radikalisiert. Das Zusammengehen von Juden- und Philisterangriff aber leitet sich aus der spezifisch romantischen Zeitdiagnose her, einer Globalisierung der Krise und einer gleichsam apokalyptischen Alarmierung des Jetztzeitbewußtseins; ansteht das Überleben der Menschheit, ihr Untergang oder ihre Wiedergeburt. [...]
Progresso
(1992)
The phase diagrams of the systems of trimethylbromosilane and the isomeric lutidines are shown. The existence of the congruently melting addition compounds (CH3)3SiBr ∙ (3,4-lutidine), (CH3)3SiBr (3,5-lutidine) and the incongruently melting addition compounds (CH3)3SiBr • (2,3-lutidine)2, (CH3)3SiBr • (2,3-lutidine), (CH3)3SiBr (2,4-lutidine), ((CH3)3SiBr)2 • (2,4-lutidine), (CH3)3SiBr • (2,5-lutidine)2, (CH3)3SiBr • (2,5-lutidine), (CH3)3SiBr (2,6-lutidine)2 could be proved.
Bücherschau
(1992)
European Vegetation Survey — ein neuer Anlauf für eine Übersicht der Pflanzengesellschaften Europas
(1992)
Überlegungen zur Erarbeitung einer syntaxonomischen Übersicht der Pflanzengesellschaften (Prodromus) Europas gibt es schon seit den 20er Jahren, also fast seit Beginn der Pflanzensoziologie. Heute gibt es sowohl positive wie negative Vorzeichen für einen Neuanfang: Wir verfügen über wesentlich bessere Informationen aus Gebieten, die noch vor 20 Jahren als wenig gut erforscht galten (z.B. Frankreich, Italien), oder doch über Anfänge einer syntaxonomischen Bearbeitung, vor allem aus dem Osten Europas. Gleichzeitig ist aber die Zahl der Vegetationsaufnahmen ins Unermeßliche gestiegen (geschätzt einige 100 000). Trotzdem erscheint eine Synthese heute mit Hilfe der EDV aussichtsreicher als mit der noch üblichen Handarbeit vor 20 Jahren - trotz Schwierigkeiten und Bedenken sollte zumindest ein neuer Anlauf gewagt werden.