Modes of biliobiliary anastomosis in relation to the healing process and occurrence of postoperative stricture

The Stanford-Binet, Fourth Edition was normed for children 30 months of age and older, but its usefulness with young children (e.g., 36 months) has received little attention. This study of 121 three-year-old children examined possible administration problems, provided correlations with three environmental measures, and compared scores with those of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised. Problems of administration did arise on some subtests, correlations with environmental measures were moderate, and scores on the Stanford-Binet IV and PPVT-R were moderately correlated. The Stanford-Binet IV is a useful test in assessment of a broad range of intellectual abilities.     

Dose-response effects of adrenergic drugs on axial movements of the rat mandibular incisor and on arterial blood pressure

Axial tooth movements and arterial blood pressure were measured following the intravenous injection of 0, 0.01, 0.1, 1, or 10 micrograms/kg of adrenaline, noradrenaline or isoprenaline. Adrenaline caused a dose-dependent, rapid, extrusive tooth movement with a nearly simultaneous increase in blood pressure, followed by a marked intrusive tooth movement and a decrease in blood pressure. Noradrenaline caused a dose-dependent, rapid, extrusive tooth movement and an increase in blood pressure, but a subsequent intrusive tooth movement and decrease in blood pressure were not so marked. Isoprenaline caused a marked intrusive tooth movement and a decrease in blood pressure, without an extrusive tooth movement and increase in blood pressure. The time required to reach the maximum intrusive tooth movement was delayed after that to reach the maximum decrease in blood pressure. The recovery time of the intrusive tooth movement was much more delayed than that of blood pressure. These results suggest that the extrusive movement of the rat incisor was primarily related to the rise of arterial blood pressure due to stimulation of vascular alpha-receptors. It is also suggested that stimulation of beta-receptors would probably cause vasodilatation of arteries that would make the pressure in the small vessels in the microcirculation of the socket fall, so reducing the volume of blood and interstitial fluid in the socket followed by a marked and continuing intrusive tooth movement.     

Protective effect of oral administration of a traditional medicine, Juzen-Taiho-To, and its components on lethal Candida albicans infection in immunosuppressed mice

Protective effects of a kampo medicine, Juzen-taiho-to (TJ-48) and its herbal components against experimental candidiasis in cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppressive mice were investigated. ICR mice were immunosuppressed by intraperitoneal treatment with cyclophosphamide (day-4) and were orally given TJ-48 or one of its 10 herbal components for 4 consecutive days (day-4--1). They were then challenged intravenously with a lethal dose of Candida albicans (day 0). An oral dose of 1 g/kg/day of TJ-48 prolonged their life span. A similar protective effect was obtained by treatment with its component drugs Ginseng radix, Glycyrrhizae radix, Atractylodis lancea rhizoma or Cnidii rhizoma. These herbal components were suggested to have a main role in the protective effect of Juzen-taiho-to against Candida infection.     

Formation and Transformation of ZnTiO3

A compound tentatively denoted as Zn₂Ti,₃O₈ is determined to be a low-temperature form of ZnTiO₃. At a heating rate of 10°C·min⁻¹ the low-temperature form crystallizes at 600° to 765° C from an amorphous material prepared by the simultaneous hydrolysis of zinc acetylacetonate and titanium isopropoxide. It has a cubic unit cell with a =0.8408 nm. The cubic-to-hexagonal transformation occurs slowly above 820°C; during transformation ZnTiO₃ decomposes into Zn₂TiO₄ and TiO₂ (rutile) at 965° to 1010°C. A single phase of the hexagonal form can be prepared by heating for 5 h at 900°C. The structure of both forms consists of octahedral TiO₆ groups.     

High efficiency and high linearity InGaP/GaAs HBT power amplifiers:matching techniques of source and load impedance to improve phasedistortion and linearity

This paper reports on a matching technique of the source and load impedance focused on a phase distortion of InGaP/GaAs HBT power amplifiers to simultaneously achieve a high efficiency and a high linearity performance. Load-pull measurements were done to maximize power added efficiency (PAE) and source pull measurements to minimize the phase distortion and adjacent channel leakage power (ACP). Our HBT exhibited a high PAE of 60.7% and an ACP at a 50 kHz offset frequency of -51 dBc for 1.5 GHz π/4-shift QPSK modulated signal with an output power (P_cut) of 31 dBm under a supply voltage of 3.5 V     

Effects of pH and SO2 on solubility coefficients of inert gases in human whole blood

We systematically investigated the quantitative importance of pH and O2 saturation (SO2) of hemoglobin on the solubility coefficients (alpha) for six inert gases: sulfur hexafluoride, N2, ethane, cyclopropane, halothane, and diethyl ether. Measurements of alpha were made at 37 degrees C with SO2 of 0-1.0 and pH of 7.2-7.7 by use of whole blood obtained from three healthy subjects. No significant dependence of alpha on pH was demonstrated for sulfur hexafluoride, N2, halothane, or diethyl ether, but an appreciable augmentation of alpha with increasing pH was found for ethane and cyclopropane. No alpha value obtained for oxygenated blood differed statistically from that for deoxygenated blood. In addition to the basic findings on the effects of pH on alpha values of ethane and cyclopropane with the multiple inert gas elimination technique (data obtained from 22 patients with either interstitial pneumonia or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), we also found that dependence of alpha on blood pH exerted no significant influence on the recovery of ventilation-perfusion distribution in the lung. We concluded that: 1) pH plays an appreciable role in determining gas solubilities in blood, 2) SO2 is not a decisive factor for gas solubilities in blood, and 3) the influence of various pH values in pulmonary capillaries on inert gas exchange is negligible.