NON-INFECTIOUS INFLAMMATORY AND NEOPLASTIC DISORDERS OF THE MALE GENITALIA

The cutaneous manifestations of the male external genitalia are difficult to diagnose. They may be associated with systemic disease (Reiter''s disease, psoriatic arthritis, angiokeratoma corporis diffusum). In dealing with a lesion of this area that does not heal, adequate biopsy is advisable to rule out malignant disease (Bowen''s disease, melanoma, Kaposi''s sarcoma, Paget''s disease, erythroplasia).     

Quantitative histochemische Untersuchungen über die säurefeste Anfärbung des Spermienkopfes

Zusammenfassung Die bei der sog. säurefesten Färbung im Spermienkopf enthaltene Kristallviolettmenge kann quantitativ mit cytophotometrischen Methoden bestimmt werden. Eine Fixierung mit abs. Alkohol und Färbung bei pH 7,5 ergab eine für quantitative Zwecke optimale Anfärbung. Die gebundene Kristallviolettmenge ist der DNS-Menge des Spermiums proportional. Es wird vermutet, daß die säurefeste Färbung auf einer Bindung des Kristallvioletts an die Phosphatgruppen der Nukleinsäuren beruht und daß die spezielle Anordnung der Nukleoproteine im Spermium eine wesentliche Rolle spielt.Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungs- Gemeinschaft.Stipendiat der Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung, 1962.     

Die Primärwurzel von Zea mays L.

Zusammenfassung An Gewächshauskulturen kann gezeigt werden, daß die Primärwurzel von Zea mays L. während der ganzen Lebensperiode der Pflanze perenniert. Da auch bei Phoenix dactylifera L. eine solche Tendenz zu erkennen ist, ist es wahrscheinlich, daß weitere Monocotylen diese Art der Bewurzelung zeigen. Es ließe sich daraus ein Maiswurzeltyp der heterogenen Radication bei den Monocotylen ableiten, bei dem primäres und sproßbürtiges Wurzelsystem dauernd nebeneinander bestehen.

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The primary root of Zea mays L.

Summary Until now it has been presumed that the primary root of Zea mays L. dies very soon after the formation of the seedling. On the basis of this presumption maize root-system development has been used as an example for monocotyledons (z.B. Troll, 1937; Rauh, 1950).After passing the seedling stage, monocotyledons are said to have shoot-born roots only. There are a few hints in the literature of exceptions to this principle known in the case of some palms (Falkenberg, 1876; Fitting, 1954; Kausch, unpublished). In this paper it is shown that the primary root of maize does not die off soon, but remains living during the entire vegetation period. Investigations were made within the greenhouse, where in the stage of flowering of the plants the primary root reached downwards into the soil as far as 1.60 m (see also Fig. 2). There are also some observations in the open field showing that here too the primary root remains living until the plant dies in autumn.Nevertheless Zea mays has sekundäre Homorhizie and heterogene Radication (Troll, 1949). However, there is surely a large group within the monocotyledons which is capable of keeping the primary root system along with shoot-born roots. Of this group it may be said that it is of the Mais-Wurzel-Typ.

     

The flow of a viscous liquid in a converging tube

The problem of the viscous flow of an incompressible Newtonian liquid in a converging tapered tube has been solved in spherical polar coordinates. The method of the solution involves the Stokes' stream function and a technique introduced by Stokes in the study of a sphere oscillating in a fluid. The theory for the flow in a rigid tube includes: (1) the pulsatile flow with both radial and angular velocity components; (2) the steady state flow with both radial and angular velocity components and (3) the very slow steady state flow with only a radial velocity component present. For a tapered elastic tube, the velocity of the propagated pulse wave is determined. The solution given is in terms of the elastic constants of the system and the coordinates for this type of geometry. The pulse velocity is then related to the velocity in an elastic cylindrical tube with the necessary correction terms to account for the tapered tube. Supported in part by the American Heart Association (No. 62F4EG). This work was done during the tenure of an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association.