Abstract:
:The deficiency of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity, which was evident in some but not all cystic fibrosis amniotic fluids, could be corrected by mixing with either normal fluids or nondeficient cystic fibrosis fluids. Incubation of any amniotic fluid for 20 min at 62 degrees C resulted in total loss of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity, but the activity could be restored by mixing with untreated nondeficient fluids. In contrast, no restoration could be obtained by mixing with untreated deficient cystic fibrosis fluids. Dialysis of amniotic fluids did not diminish their corrective capacity. Only the transpeptidation reaction was corrected and no correction was observed for the hydrolysis or autotranspeptidation of gamma-glutamyl p-nitroanilide in the absence of the glycylglycine or methionine acceptor. Plasma specimens did not have any corrective activity, although their gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity could be restored after heat inactivation by mixing with untreated nondeficient amniotic fluids. No correction was found for aminopeptidase or disaccharidase activities. These findings suggest that the deficient cystic fibrosis amniotic fluids probably contain normal quantities of the gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase enzyme but lack a heat-labile nondialyzable activator that is necessary for its transpeptidation catalytic performance. An assay for this transpeptidase activator may provide a valuable approach to identify at least a subgroup of cystic fibrosis patients.
journal_name
Pediatr Resjournal_title
Pediatric researchauthors
Ben-Yoseph Y,Rembelski P,Nadler HLdoi
10.1203/00006450-198412000-00025subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-12-01 00:00:00pages
1340-3issue
12eissn
0031-3998issn
1530-0447journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Nitric oxide plays a major role in vascular tone control. Increased blood levels of bradykinin (BK), which stimulates nitric oxide biosynthesis, occur at birth. BK effects on ductus arteriosus (DA) tone were investigated in fetal rabbit under fetal (2.5% O2 "low PO2") and neonatal (30% O2 "high PO2") conditions using ...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-199904010-00017
更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Developmental disability, intrauterine growth retardation, renal anomalies, and dysmorphic features have been described in offspring of women who abuse toluene during pregnancy. A Sprague-Dawley rat model was developed to study this clinical syndrome. During d 6-19 of gestation, 11 treated dams received daily gavage d...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-199412000-00023
更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Scoring tools used to quantify withdrawal in infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) are often confounded by subjective measurements. This study assessed salivary cortisol as an objective biomarker of withdrawal severity in opioid-exposed newborns. METHODS:A prospective study was conducted in 25 ful...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41390-019-0601-7
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1038/pr.2016.53
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-199112000-00021
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/01.pdr.0000242340.45676.5d
更新日期:2006-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198703000-00002
更新日期:1987-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198408000-00019
更新日期:1984-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198612000-00018
更新日期:1986-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181bf5fab
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198507000-00019
更新日期:1985-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of the present study was to determine the proportion of gamma/delta T-lymphocytes and CD16/CD56 (CD3- and CD3+) cells in the peripheral blood of children and adolescents with Graves' disease (GD; n = 27; mean age, 15.5 +/- 5.1 y) and nontoxic nodular goiter (NTNG; n = 25; mean age, 15.2 +/- 5.7 y), in comparis...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/01.PDR.0000076663.94850.44
更新日期:2003-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Neonatal mortality and morbidity are increasingly recognized as important globally, but detailed estimates of neonatal morbidity from conditions and long-term consequences are yet to be published. METHODS:We describe the general methods for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and modeling used in this supple...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/pr.2013.203
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pregnane steroids have sedative and neuroprotective effects on the brain, due to interactions with the steroid-binding site of the GABAA receptor. In the adult brain, synthesis of the pregnane steroids is increased in response to stress. Therefore, we have used umbilicoplacental embolization to mimic chronic placental...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/01.PDR.0000088066.47755.36
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phototherapy results in the conversion of native bilirubin to more water-soluble configurational and structural isomers. The serum half-life for the configurational isomer, the principal photoproduct in vivo, was determined by high pressure liquid chromatography in six premature infants following cessation of photothe...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198502000-00012
更新日期:1985-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pulmonary surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C were isolated from lavage fluids of bovine lungs and recombined (lipid/proteins, 9/1, wt/wt) with dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine for testing in vitro and in surfactant-deficient adult rats. Using a pulsating bubble surfactometer, we found that inflation pressures of bubbles...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198805000-00010
更新日期:1988-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Carlo Agostoni, MD, and Kwang Sik Kim, MD, are the Guest Editors for this annual review issue on Nutrition and the Microbiome. Dr Agostoni is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, within the Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, ...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 历史文章
doi:10.1038/pr.2014.195
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We examined adult sheep lymphocytes for the following surface markers: Surface membrane immunoglobulin, antigen identified by anti-sheep thymocyte globulin and complement receptors. We quantitated sheep peripheral blood mononuclear leukocyte proliferative responses to mitogens and alloantigens, and demonstrated a neut...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198405000-00012
更新日期:1984-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Gender is increasingly recognized as an important influence on brain development, disease susceptibility, and response to pharmacologic/rehabilitative treatments. In regenerative medicine, it remains entirely unknown whether there is an interaction between transplanted stem cells and host gender that might b...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/pr.2014.7
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a serious diagnosis with the prospect of grave short- and long-term complications and even death if poorly managed. An attempt has been made to describe how clinical and immunological deviations might influence each other close to the diagnosis of T1D. METHODS:Sixty-nine newly diagn...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/pr.2013.167
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ventilation of immature airways has been shown to result in pressure-induced deformation and alteration of mechanical properties. These changes in mechanical properties may alter the effect of compressive pressures on pressure-flow relationships. To test this hypothesis, unventilated (Group I, n = 8) and ventilated (g...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198805000-00017
更新日期:1988-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-198611000-00012
更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/01.PDR.0000145274.47221.10
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Studies in adult animal and human subjects have suggested that the methylxanthine drugs can delay the onset or attenuate the severity of diaphragmatic fatigue. We have investigated the effect of aminophylline and caffeine on the pressure-generating capacity of the fatigued diaphragm in 1-mo-old piglets. Measurements o...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-199211000-00019
更新日期:1992-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181c2def3
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Protein intake may modulate cardiac structure and function in pathological conditions, but there is a lack of knowledge on potential effects in healthy infants. METHODS:Secondary analysis of an ongoing randomized clinical trial comparing two groups of infants receiving a higher (HP) or lower (LP) protein co...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1038/pr.2016.30
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Adolescents born preterm have altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function with a blunted cortisol stress response, however, the influences of intrauterine growth restriction and race are unclear. METHODS:We measured salivary cortisol before and 20 min after a maximal-exercise stress test and calcul...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41390-019-0682-3
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/00006450-199910000-00008
更新日期:1999-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::An imbalance in apoptosis or survival of immune cells plays an essential role in the pathophysiology of sepsis. Phagocytosis-induced cell death (PICD) is a common result of the pathogen-host cell interaction mediated by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Neonatal sepsis is frequently characterized by hyperinflammation. Co...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e31815b8e9f
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes a progressive immunodeficiency, often manifested in adults by the development of infections with relatively rare, opportunistic organisms. However, in HIV-infected children, recurrent serious infections with common encapsulated bacteria, as well as recurrent min...
journal_title:Pediatric research
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验,评审
doi:10.1203/00006450-199305001-00464
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00