Nonbacterial pneumonitis with multidrug antineoplastic therapy in breast carcinoma

Seventeen patients with metastatic breast carcinoma were treated with a combination of 5-fluorouracil, methotrexate, vincristine, cyclophosphamide and prednisone. Six of the patients (35%) developed a syndrome consisting of fever, malaise, dyspnea, hypoxemia and bilateral pulmonary interstitial infiltrates from 41 to 148 days after institution of therapy. The syndrome varied from a mild to a life-threatening illness with recovery in 10 to 60 days. It is believed that these cases represent examples of methotrexate-induced pneumonitis. The high incidence of the syndrome in this patient group may be related to the concomitant administration of cyclophosphamide with methotrexate. The observations also suggest that patients with previous adrenalectomies may have pneumonitis with an especially severe and protracted course.     

Partial XYY syndrome

Summary A 13-year-old boy with 47 chromosomes, an extra small metacentric chromosome and karyotype 47,XY,?Yq- is presented. He has psychiatric symptoms typical of boys with karyotype 47,XYY as seen in the tabulated results of a psychiatric study of 22 boys with the XYY syndrome, examined at the Cytogenetic Laboratory, Århus State Hospital, Risskov.

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Zusammenfassung Es wird über einen 13 Jahre alten Jungen berichtet mit 47 Chromosomen, einem zusätzlichen kleinen metazentrischen Chromosom und der Karyotype 47,XY, ?Yq-. Er weist die typischen psychischen Symptome für Jungen mit der Karyotype 47,XYY auf, wie man aus den tabellarisch dargestellten Ergebnissen der psychiatrischen Untersuchung von insgesamt 22 Jungen mit XYY-Syndrom, die am cytogenetischen Labor, Århus State Hospital, Risskov, untersucht wurden, ersehen kann.

     

Structures of some minor pterocarpans of Neorautanenia edulis

The constitution of five new compounds, (?)-neorautenol, (?)-neodunol, (?)-homoedudiol, neorauteen and neoduleen, has been established in the root bark of Neorautanenia edulis.     

Lokalisation der Mannitbiosynthese in der marinen Braunalge Fucus serratus

Summary Tips of fronds of Fucus serratus L. were exposed to H¹⁴CO₃ in the light for periods of 10, 30, 60, and 180s, fixed in petrol ether at-70° C, and subsequently lyophilized. Pheoplasts (=chloroplasts) were isolated using the nonaqueous technique of Thalacker et al. (1959). After extraction and chromatography percentage ¹⁴C activity and distribution of individual photoassimilates between pheoplasts and other compartments of assimilating cells were analyzed. Eighty percent of [¹⁴C]-phosphate esters were found within the pheoplasts after 10s ¹⁴C-assimilation, whereas only 25% were found there after 30s. After 10s [¹⁴C] mannitol is almost totally localized within the plastids, but after 180s the major part has been localized outside the pheoplasts. On the basis of these data the pheoplasts are regarded to be the only sites of primary mannitol biosynthesis during photosynthesis in Fucus.     

Father and daughter with presumptive isochromosome satellites-short arms D or G

Summary Presumptive isochromosome short arms-satellites D or G was found in a father and his daughter, both of whom had personality deviation. The father was detected in a prevalence and incidence study of 1208 males in a Danish psychiatric hospital.It is concluded that there is most probably no causal relationship between the presumptive isochromosome short arms-satellites of a D or a G chromosome and the personality deviation in the proband and his daughter in the present study.

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Zusammenfassung Bei einem Vater und seiner Tochter fand sich ein Extra-Chromosom, das wahrscheinlich ein Isochromosom von kurzen Armen bzw. Satelliten von D- oder G-Chromosomen darstellt. Beide hatten eine Anomalie der Persönlichkeit. Der Vater wurde in einer Prävalenz- und Incidenzstudie an 1208 Männern eines dänischen Psychiatrischen Hospitals erfaßt.Die Autoren ziehen den Schluß, daß sehr wahrscheinlich keine kausale Beziehung zwischen dem vermuteten Isochromosom und der Persönlichkeitsabweichung bei dem Probanden und seiner Tochter besteht.

     

Beobachtungen über Veränderungen des Gehaltes an organischen Säuren im Blutungssaft von Birke (Betula alba) und Ahorn (Acer Pseudoplatanus)

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Über die Aufzucht Isolierter Teile des Amphibienkeimes

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