A statistical note on the association of colorectal cancer and lymphoma

The degradation and excretion of 2-14C-uric acid were examined in three adult woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothrichia) to determine the basis for the relatively high serum and urinary uric acid concentrations previously reported in this species. Like man and the great apes which lack uricase, but in distinction to most other mammals, these animals converted very little urate to allantoin. Uric acid turnover, as has been reported for other New World monkeys, was several times that of normal man. Renal urate excretion as well as disposition by extrarenal mechanisms may protect Lagothrix vrom hyperuricemia. The capacity to convert urate to allantoin appears to have been lost late in the evolution of New World monkeys. The woolly monkey deserves further study as a primate model for investigations of enzyme replacement strategies.     

The maximum surgical blood order schedule and surgical blood use in the United States

The outdating of units of blood can be reduced by decreasing the amount of time they spend in an assigned or crossmatched status. This reduction can be achieved in a hospital by establishing a maximum surgical blood order schedule (MSBOS) which reduces the excessive number of units of blood crossmatched preoperatively for patients undergoing elective surgery. The various steps which occurred in the development of a MSBOS in a large general hospital are detailed and the projected reduction in the number of crossmatched units which can be achieved with the MSBOS is illustrated. illustrated. The projected number of units of blood transfused to patients during their hospitalization for 50 common primary surgical procedures in the United States during 1974 is presented as a basis for defining maximum blood orders for each procedure.     

An improved snare system for the nonsurgical retrieval of intravascular foreign bodies

We have modified a snare technique originally described for transcolonoscopic removal of colonic polyps for the retrieval of intravascular foreign bodies. The key difference from other snare techniques is the employment of a wire snare with a crimp in its midportion that enables the formation of a loop in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the guiding catheter. With this technique we have quickly removed a variety of objects from the right heart and pulmonary arteries in four patients.     

磁控反应溅射氧流量变化对TiO2薄膜影响的实验研究

通过中频交流磁控溅射设备,利用金属Ti靶制备出了有一定厚度的、质量较好的TiO2薄膜,TiO2薄膜被沉积在玻璃基底上.利用各种分析测试手段对其性能进行了测试,初步探讨了不同氧流量对TiO2薄膜的影响.实验表明,不同氧流量下制备的TiO2薄膜的亲水特性发生了变化.     

Porous-coated total hip replacement

Fifteen years of clinical experience with porous-coated prostheses demonstrated the durability of this type of fixation. This experience was documented by clinical follow-up study of the 393 cases treated by the senior author before 1985. Only six of these femoral components have been revised: three for loosening, two for stem breakage, and one for infection. Thus, the revision rate for the porous-coated stems was 1.5%. Porous-coated acetabular components were used in 227 of the arthroplasties. Five of these porous-coated cups have been revised: four for malposition leading to dislocation and one for late loosening secondary to osteolysis. Thus, the revision rate for these porous-coated acetabular components was 2.2%. Twenty bipolar and 146 cemented acetabular components were used in the remaining 166 cases treated before 1985. Eleven (7.5%) of the cemented acetabular components were revised. Revisions of the porous-coated components were rare in the first ten postoperative years. The clinical data were supplemented with analysis of postmortem specimens from 15 patients. Mechanical testing of the femoral specimens showed the relative micromotion at the porous surface to be exceptionally small (less than 40 microns). Seven of these postmortem retrievals involved cases with unilateral arthroplasties. In these cases, the contralateral normal femur also was removed, and a prosthesis identical to that in the in vivo implanted side was inserted to simulate the immediate postoperative condition. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) of the seven paired femora demonstrated that bone remodeling can be expected to produce a 5%-52% loss of periprosthetic bone mineral content, with the greatest loss occurring in the more osteoporotic patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

壳聚糖改性竹粉/PVC复合材料的制备和性能

壳聚糖、竹粉和PVC等按一定比例混合,用挤出成型法制备了竹粉/PVC复合材料。考察了壳聚糖添加量对复合材料物理力学性能、热稳定性、防水性能和防腐性能的影响。结果表明,适量壳聚糖的添加,可以改善复合材料的综合性能。且当壳聚糖含量为3wt%时复合材料的性能最佳,与未添加壳聚糖的复合材料相比,其拉伸强度、冲击强度和弯曲强度分别提高了44.7%、58.2%和79.6%,腐蚀前8天的吸水率从2.2%降低为1.6%,被白腐菌和褐腐菌腐蚀后材料的质量损失率分别降低了94.1%和75.0%。     

分子泵的世纪回顾与展望

分子泵自1912年诞生以来,至今已快近一个世纪了,它在初期进展较缓慢,在1970年以前,分子泵的应用还仅限于核物理,电真空,表面科学等领域,但近20年来由于半导体产业的兴起和薄膜工业的发展,分子泵才被人们所重视,并得到了兴旺和发达,现代的分子泵已发展到实用和普及的阶段,本文回顾了分子泵分析近百年的发展历史,详细地介绍了分子泵在各个时期的发展状况,对初期的分子泵,涡轮分子泵,磁悬浮轴承和气体静压静轴式涡轮分子泵,复合式分子泵,低温型涡轮分子泵,新型牵引分子泵,陶瓷涡轮分子泵,轴反应生成物的涡轮分子泵和极高真空涡分子泵等做了重点的分析,最后指出分子泵的发展前景。     

Size, diffusibility and transfection performance of linear PEI/DNA complexes in the mouse central nervous system

Currently in vivo gene delivery by synthetic vectors is hindered by the limited diffusibility of complexes in extra-cellular fluids and matrices. Here we show that certain formulations of plasmid DNA with linear polyethylenimine (22 kDa PEI, ExGene 500) can produce complexes that are sufficiently small and stable in physiological fluids so as to provide high diffusibility. When plasmid DNA was formulated with 22 kDa PEI in 5% glucose, it produced a homogeneous population of complexes with mean diameters ranging from 30 to 100 nm according to the amount of PEI used. In contrast, formulation in physiological saline produced complexes an order of magnitude greater (> or = 1 micron). Intraventricular injection of complexes formulated in glu-cose showed the complexes to be highly diffusible in the cerebrospinal fluid of newborn and adult mice, diffusing from a single site of injection throughout the entire brain ventricular spaces. Transfection efficiency was followed by histochemistry of beta-galactosidase activity and double immunocytochemistry was used to identify the cells transfected. Transgene expression was found in both neurons and glia adjacent to ventricular spaces. Thus, this method of formulation is promising for in vivo work and may well be adaptable to other vectors and physiological models.