Lodging of CFU(s) under various circumstances in bone marrow, spleen and liver

Treatment of mice with high doses of endotoxin (ET) affected the CFU(s) population in bone marrow, spleen and liver. By 7 days after injection the number of CFU(s) in bone marrow had decreased and the number in spleen and liver had increased. The experimental data show that if mice were irradiated and reconstituted with bone marrow 7 days after...

Selective macrophage inhibition abolishes warfarin-induced reduction of metastasis

Warfarin administered to tumor-bearing mice reduces the number of spontaneous lung metastases. Both macrophage inhibitors silica and carrageenan abolish the warfarin-induced decrease in tumour metastasis, which strongly supports the concept that the antitumour effect of coumarin derivatives is mediated by stimulation of macrophages. The results...

Structural identity of the pluripotential hemopoietic stem cell

A review is presented of the experiments that resulted in the identification of a specific morphologic entity representing the pluripotential hemopoietic stem cell (HSC) in mouse bone marrow. This entity was subsequently discovered in concentrated HSC preparations from bone marrow of rats, monkeys, and humans. In the mouse, a set of physical...

Antidotes to organophosphate poisoning. 2. Thiadiazole-5-carboxaldoximes

Three new nonquaternary oximes have been evaluated with respect to their antidotal activities against organophosphate poisoning. The oximes 1,2,3-thiadiazole-5-carboxaldoxime (1, pKa = 7.6), 2-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole-5-carboxaldoxime (2, pKa = 8.4), and 3-methyl-1,2,4-thiadiazole-5-carboxaldoxime (3, pKa = 7.0) were prepared in yields of 56, 24...

Factor XII-dependent fibrinolysis: A double function of plasma kallikrein and the occurrence of a previously undescribed factor XII- and kallikrein-dependent plasminogen proactivator

Fibrinolytic studies in euglobulin fractions of Fletcher trait plasma (deficient in prekallikrein) revealed reduced activities as compared to normal plasma. A quantitative assay for total plasminogen activator plus proactivator in plasma showed that the amount in Fletcher trait patients is about half of normal (normal = ?? 100 blood activator...

Further studies on mobilization of CFUs

Mobilization of CFUs from haemopoietic tissues into circulation was studied after injection of different bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), zymosan, phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), concanavalin A (Con A), trypsin and di-isopropyl-fluorophosphate-inhibited trypsin. All bacterial LPS used gave an increase of CFUs in the peripheral blood at 1 h after...

Repeated exposure to butenolide vapour: Subacute study in Syrian golden hamsters

The subacute inhalation toxicity of butenolide was examined in hamsters by repeated exposure of 4 groups of 10 males and 10 females to butenolide vapour at concentrations of 0, 5.4, 25 and 130 ppm respectively (6 h/day, 5 days/week) for a period of 13 weeks. The effects found at 130 ppm included eye irritation, salivation, nasal discharge,...

Haemodynamic changes in the cerebral circulation of the cat during occlusion of the middle cerebral artery

In a group of 21 cats, the middle cerebral artery pressure (MCAP) was recorded by means of a catheter introduced into the artery at its origin, just distal to the occlusion. The effects of hypertension, hypercapnia, and hypocapnia were studied. In a group of five cats, both middle cerebral arteries (MCA) were catheterized and the pressure was...

Multi-locus control of MLC reactions in rhesus monkeys

The genetic basis for MLC reactivity in rhesus monkeys was further investigated. Cells from an intra-RhLA recombinant monkey were MLC reactive with those of an SD-identical sib and with each of two sets of homozygous typing cells carrying either paternal haplotype. Also, cells from a pair of RhLA- identical sibs reacted in MLC with each other,...

Purification of rat fibrinogen and its constituent chains

Rat fibrinogen was purified from rat plasma by using lysine-Sepharose chromatography, repeated precipitation with 25%-satd. (HN4)2SO4 and gel chromatography on Sepharose 6B. To minimize proteolytic activity, rats were injected intravenously with Trasylol before bleeding and the collected blood was treated with Trasylol and di-isopropyl...

Extrapulmonary colony formation after intravenous injection of tumour cells into heparin treated animals

Recent data on extrapulmonary colony formation after heparin administration are inconclusive. A systemic study of this topic was undertaken with 4 experimental tumour systems and 2 distinct periods of reduced clotting capacity in rats and mice. I.v. injection of various numbers of tumour cells into i.p. heparinized animals leads to: Significant...