Studies on the production of precooked flours from beans and cowpeas, alone and combined by cooking. Dehydration]

A review is presented of vesical-related paragangliomas and 3 cases are reported. Methods for early diagnosis, including selective angiographic demonstration, and treatment of these rare tumors are discussed. A multi-team approach by the urologist, endocrinologist and anesthesiologist is stressed for better control of potentially dangerous vasomotor changes during diagnosis and surgical treatment of this tumor.     

The cardiovascular pharmacology of the antibiotic ionophore Ro 2-2985 (X537A)

Ro 2-2985 increased mean arterial blood pressure in both the venous bypass preparation and the intact animal; however, total peripheral resistance increased in the venous bypass preparation with a constant cardiac output but decreased in the intact animal with an increase in cardiac output. These observations indicate a drug-related increase in the distensibility of the aorta at the same arterial pressure. In vivo ventricular function curves were shifted to the left indicating enhanced myocardial performance with the translocation of large volumes of blood to the central circulation since total body venous compliance was significantly decreased. Beta adrenergic blocking doses of propranolol blocked the positive inotropic effect of Ro 2-2985 while myocardial depression produced by toxic doses of propranolol was reversed. This observation suggests several mechanisms for the Ro 2-2985 metabolic mediation of myocardial muscle contraction. The cardiovascular effects produced by Ro 2-2985 were accompanied by a marked polycythemia and a decrease in plasma volume without a change in total circulating blood volume, while blood glucose values showed a nonsignificant increase. Ro 2-2985 produced a marked increase in cardiac output. The increase in myocardial performance appears to be complex since myocardial force of contraction, dT/dt, dP/dt:P40 and Vmax were all increased. RO 2-2985 increased coronary flow without an increase in resistance. There were no significant increases in myocardial arteriovenous glucose, lactate, K+, Ca++, Na+ or Cl.     

Inexpensive collapsible covered pen with slatted floor for turkeys

Designed to confine turkeys for fowl cholera research was a collapsible pen with a hinged steel roof, wire sides, and slatted wooden floors. It is inexpensive to build; conserves labor in feeding, watering, and disposal of manure; protects against rain, sun, and predators; provides ventilation against heat; gives easy access to turkeys; and is collapsible     

New pulsed Xe-neutral laser line

A previously unreported xenon-neutral laser line at 4.02 μ has been observed in high-pressure He-Xe mixtures excited by a pulsed electrical discharge.     

UV screen progenitors. Thermally labile urethane derivatives of hydroxyphenylbenzotriazoles and hydroxybenzophenones

UV-curable formulations do not UV cure when hydroxybenzophenone or hydroxyphenylbenzotriazole UV screens are added to them. Reaction of these UV screens with alkyl or aryl isocyanates gives urethane derivatives in high yields. These derivatives do not impede UV cures when they are incorporated in UV-curable formulations at relatively high levels (3%–5%). After completion of the UV cure, the urethane derivatives are catalytically decomposed by heating to regenerate the corresponding UV screen within the cured coating.