Preliminary observations on the structure of the medio-intimal area of the rabbit coronary arteries. (A. Observations on 4-month-old rabbits)

The presence of the diffuse intimal thickening (DIT) is commonly considered the structural basis for the early atherosclerotic involvement of the coronary arteries. In the ambit of a systematic morphometric comparison of experimental atherosclerotic plaques of aorta and coronaries, we have studied the coronary medio-intimal junctions of 4 months old rabbits. Both at sub-epicardic and intra-myocardic coronary arteries level we have found fiber structures similar to DIT. These findings may help explaining why coronary atherosclerosis in rabbits does not represent, in the usual experimental models, a lesion particularly severe nor of precocious appearance.     

Crossing coronary arteries

A 73-year-old man was referred to the outpatient clinic because of an aortic stenosis and angina pectoris (NYHA class 2). An exercise stress test was abnormal suggesting ischaemia.     

二点委夜蛾形态特征的初步观察

对二点委夜蛾Athelis lepigone(Moschler)各虫态的外部结构和细微特征进行了系统观察。区分了成虫、蛹的雌雄特征,对成虫足、翅脉结构、幼虫头部、腹足等做了详细描述。该虫成虫和幼虫的主要鉴别特征:翅灰褐色,前翅3条黑褐色的横线呈波浪状,中剑纹为黑色三角形或菱形斑,肾形斑由黑点组成边缘,外侧中凹有白点;幼虫颅侧区有倒"八"字形暗褐色斑纹。腹背具"V"字纹,亚背线深褐色具灰白色边缘。     

Preliminary observations on the collection of baboon oviducal fluid

Five sexually mature and regularly ovulating baboons (Papio cyanocephalus) were subjected to bilateral oviducal cannulation. Prior to failure of the primary cannulation, peri-ovulatory fluids were collected during three menstrual cycles from one animal, during two cycles from a second animal, and during a single cycle from each of two additional animals. These four animals were subsequently recannulated and oviducal fluids obtained during six additional cycles, but tubal fluid collection after the second procedure was generally less satisfactory than following the initial manipulation. Two attempted cannulations in the fifth animal did not result in oviducal fluid collection. Of the 13 menstrual cycles during which tubal fluid was collected, four were apparently anovulatory. Collections from two of these as well as from three ovulatory cycles were characterized by erratic flow and mucous-blood contamination. Tubal fluids were collected without apparent technical interference or serum contamination from six ovulatory and two anovulatory cycles. Maximum volumes (1.77±.34 ml/oviduct/24 hours) of tubal fluids were collected during the 48 hours following the midcycle LH peak. Thereafter, the rate of oviducal fluid collection declined rapidly.