abstract：:Naloxone, a specific opiate antagonist with no agonist properties, in doses of 0.4 and 4.0 mg/kg was found to markedly reduce the duration of primary apnea in asphyxiated newborn rabbits. There was no effect on the duration of the hyperpneic phase (time to primary apnea) or on survival time (time to last gasp). It is ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chernick V,Madansky DL,Lawson EE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a strictly controlled chemical system in vitro to evaluate the efficacy of lead (Pb) chelators. Moreover, these experiments were carried out to understand further the complex interactions between Pb chelating agents, calcium-regulating hormones, and bone cell metabolism. The ef...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Rosen JF,Markowitz ME

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased concentrations of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) have been reported in the sera and sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis. We have found significantly higher concentrations of CEA in both extracted and unextracted saliva of patients with cystic fibrosis compared to age-matched controls and a comparable gro...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： MacSween JM,Gillespie CT

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin fibroblasts derived from 6 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 1-6 months old, and from 6 age matched donors were investigated for their ability to accumulate cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (c-AMP) in response to isoproterenol and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) using strictly defined culture conditions. In order t...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Roscher AA,Schmid AJ,Hadorn B,Wiesmann UN

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal maternal therapy with glucocorticoid reduces the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature infants. To investigate the effects of this treatment on the fetal endocrine system, we determined serum concentrations of betamethasone, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, growth hormone, and...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ballard PL,Gluckman PD,Liggins GC,Kaplan SL,Grumbach MM

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet volume was measured in 20 healthy children, 18 patients with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), 24 patients with chronic ITP, 22 patients with aplastic anemia, and 17 patients with acute leukemia in childhood. The authors compared the platelet volume of these patients by use of peak platelet vol...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Tomita E,Akatsuka JI,Kokubun Y

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated metabolic dysfunction in the mononuclear cells of some children with abnormal cell-mediated immunity. Interpretation of these observations has been complicated by the extreme heterogeneity of cell types examined. The glycolytic metabolism of relatively enriched T-cells, non-T mononuc...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Storch S,Klein W,Feig SA,Henderson T

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen of 100 unselected patients in an intensive care nursery were found by the auditory brainstem evoked response (ABR) method to suffer significant hearing loss; of these 8 were ultimately discharged home. Analysis of the 100 clinical records identified 9 risk factors of which most, like low Apgar scores, are alr...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Galambos R,Despland PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma aldosterone (A), corticosterone (B), deoxycorticosterone (DOC), progesterone (P), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP), cortisol (F), and cortisone (E) were measured simultaneously by specific radioimmunoassays in small plasma samples obtained from 174 normal infants and children between 2 hr and 15 yr of age. The s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Sippell WG,Dörr HG,Bidlingmaier F,Knorr D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal susceptibility to overwhelming bacterial infection is commonly attributed to a relative deficiency in serum opsonic activity. However, few studies have compared the functional capacity of the classical complement pathway with that of the alternative complement pathway in the neonate. The opsonic activity of n...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Mills EL,Björksteń B,Quie PG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue and white phototherapy was given to infant (and weanling) homozygous Gunn rats treated with different doses of riboflavin-5-phosphate (ribofl.5'p.) During the first hours after a flavin-injection, the effect of phototherapy with both types of fluorescent lamps was enhanced. With equal radiant power applied, the s...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ballowitz L,Bunjamin A,Hanefeld F,Lietz L,Stüttgen G,Wirjadi D

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothrombin of newborns was investigated by means of the quantitative immunoelectrophoresis and the two-dimensional immunoelectrophoresis. The plasma of 10 of 24 healthy term newborns and of 5 preterm infants taken immediately after birth showed one prothrombin precipitate in the alpha-2-beta-globulin position when a ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Muntean W,Petek W,Rosanelli K,Mutz ID

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with cystic fibrosis excreted elevated urinary levels of all three polyamines--putrescine, spermidine, and spermine. Heterozygote parents excreted intermediate concentrations of the polyamines, but not levels significantly different from levels in normal controls. Patients with cystic fibrosis who were admini...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Russell DH,Rosenblum MG,Beckerman RC,Durie BG,Taussig LM,Barnett DR

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of transient renal tubular acidosis was made in a 16 months old boy. Bicarbonate titration studies revealed that the acidification defect consisted of an association of proximal and distal tubular acidosis. The effect of experimentally induced potassium depletion revealed that hyperkalemia contributed to...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Donckerwolcke RA,Valk C,van Wijngaarden-Penterman MJ,van Stekelenburg GJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the hemodynamic effects of isoproterenol, dopamine, and dobutamine in the immature animal, each drug was infused into anesthetized open chest puppies and cardiac output was measured, as were systemic arterial blood pressure, heart rate, and renal artery blood flow. Cardiac output was increased by dopamine a...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Driscoll DJ,Gillette PC,Lewis RM,Hartley CJ,Schwartz A

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondro-osseous tissue from five patients with diastropic dwarfism was studied by histologic, histochemical, and electron microscopic methods. The major abnormalities observed were: 1) irregular distribution of chondrocytes undergoing degeneration in the resting cartilage; 2) abnormal distribution of collagens in the ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Horton WA,Rimoin DL,Hollister DW,Silberberg R

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn Sprague-Dawley rat pups were found to have reduced net tubular reclamation of the beta-amino acid taurine in vivo. The reabsorption of this compound increased between the 2nd and 4th week of life and the excreted taurine fell despite a rise in glomerular filtration rate indicative of increased transport with m...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Chesney RW,Jax DK

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jejunal biopsies obtained from 45 children referred for a variety of clinical conditions were examined histologically and by standard immunofluorescence methods. The number of plasma cells was recorded per "mucosal tissue unit". The results showed that most of the immunoglobulin A (IgA) counts in infants under 3 yr wi...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Maffei HV,Kingston D,Hill ID,Shiner M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal values for the percentages of lymphocytes carrying surface membrane-bound immunoglobulin, or rosetting with sheep erythrocytes, ox erythrocytes coated with rabbit immunoglobulin G, or ox erythrocytes coated with rabbit immunoglobulin M and reacted with human serum partially de-complemented with zymozan, have be...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Stern CM

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of M. nemestrina at 80% of normal gestation provides a population of neonates at high risk for hyaline membrane disease (HMD). The diagnosis of HMD was made by the presence of reticulogranular densities and air bronchograms on chest radiographs. Patchy atelectasis was seen in the lungs of animals assigned by ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Prueitt JL,Palmer S,Standaert TA,Luchtel DL,Murphy JH,Hodson WA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The hGH response to an ornithin or an insulin test was measured in 105 children from 11-18 yr old with delay of growth more than 2 SD. Besides 74 subjects with normal values and 7 with complete lack of response, 24 subjects exhibited a partial rise of GH. Most of the latter had decreasing growth rate and no ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Gourmelen M,Pham-Huu-Trung MT,Girard F

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently a soybean oil emulsion (Intralipid) (IL) has been released in the United States for use as a parenteral nutrient. The study reported here was undertaken to determine the effect of ingestion of IL on the synthesis and secretion of the second (C2) and fourth (C4) components of complement by guinea pig peritonea...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Strunk RC,Kunke K,Nagle RB,Payne CM,Harrison HR

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationship of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) and P50 levels during the fetal and postnatal life were determined in two mammalian species which do not have a switchover of hemoglobin type at the end of their fetal development. In the guinea pig and rabbit, the 2,3-DPG levels remain low during fetal life an...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Bard H,Shapiro M

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of somatomedin and cortisol on embryonic chick cartilage in vitro indicates that somatomedin stimulates 35SO4 uptake while cortisol decreases it with no effect on glycosaminoglycan turnover. Xylosyltransferase activity is increased in crude fractions of somatomedin-treated cartilage but decreased in cortiso...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Kilgore BS,McNatt ML,Meador S,Lee JA,Hughes ER,Elders MJ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiendotoxin effect of polymyxin B was investigated in experimentally induced septicemia in rabbits. The Pasteurella multocida organisms were sensitive to the antibacterial action of penicillin but not to polymyxin B. Animals pre-treated with polymyxin showed positive blood cultures and significantly reduced plas...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Corrigan JJ Jr,Kiernat JF

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal and pentagastrin-stimulated gastric acid secretion was measured in 26 healthy newborn infants on the 1st and 2nd days of life. Basal acid outputs (BAO) on day 1 (0.378 mEq/hr) and day 2 (0.388 mEq/hr) were similar and not significantly different from the maximal acid outputs (MAO) on day 1 (0.413 mEq/hr) and day...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Euler AR,Byrne WJ,Meis PJ,Leake RD,Ament ME

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in the pattern of biotransformation of [14C]corticosterone in fetal mouse brain between gestational day 14 and 17 increased the proportion of unchanged hormone from 9-75%. A sharp decrease in the in vitro incorporation of [14C]leucine, [3H]uridine, and [3H]thymidine into incubated brain coincided with this ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Tye LM,Michaud NJ,Burton AF

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-corrected measurements of transplacental and transamniotic electrical potentials were made in potassium-deficient rats on the 20th day of gestation. These averaged 6.4 mV and 2.0 mV, respectively, in the deficient group as compared with 14.3 and 18.4, respectively, in the controls. The measured maternal potassium...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Fantel AG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted in an attempt to determine the hemolytic potential of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) on normal intact red blood cells (RBCs). ASA (25 mg/100 ml) did not impair RBC G-6-PD, glutathione peroxidase or catalase activity, glutathione stability, or hexose monophosphate shunt activity. Hemolysis was not ob...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Stockman JA 3rd,Lubin B,Oski FA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pups delivered by rats fed during pregnancy a choline-deficient (CD) diet containing 1% N,N-dimethylaminoethanol (DME) die within 36 hr of birth. The concentrations of sphingomyelins, phosphatidyl cholines, and disaturated phosphatidyl cholines in the lungs of these pups are lower than those in the lungs of pups deliv...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Katyal SL,Lombardi B

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase activity was measured in membrane preparations of cultured fibroblasts from controls and patients with cystic fibrosis. Enzyme activity increased as the transition from exponential growth to confluence occurred; sodium fluoride-stimulated activity more markedly displayed this relationship than basal ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Wright RK,Buehler BA,Schott SN,Rennert OM

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid profile, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and lipoproteins (beta-, pre-beta-, and alpha-) of cord blood, is presented for 419 black and white infants (94% of the eligible population) born during an 18-month period in Bogalusa, Louisiana. At birth, white neonates of both sexes had higher average levels than ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Frerichs RR,Srinivasan SR,Webber LS,Rieth MC,Berenson GS

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is developed for the detection of homozygotes and heterozygote carriers of Niemann-Pick disease type A by employing a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique for the measurement of sphingomyelin (SP) as well as for the assay of the enzyme sphingomyelinase (SPase) in skin fibroblasts and amniot...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Jungalwala FB,Milunsky A

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was undertaken to determine the nature of acute alterations in renal function following the production of hypoxemia, hypercarbia, and acidosis in newborn piglets 6-96 hr of age. After completion of the surgical procedure piglets were allowed to recover from the effects of anesthesia. When respirator...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Alward CT,Hook JB,Helmbrath TA,Bailie MD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified human liver arylsulfatase A on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at pH 4.0 is separated into two protein forms with enzymatic activity and two distinct inactive subunits. All of these components were immunologically distinguishable using different antisera preparations. In late infantile metachromatic leukod...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shapira E,DeGregorio RR,Nadler HL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies of restricted specificity have been identified in the human in response to certain antigens. The present study analyzed tetanus and diphtheria antitoxins isolated from selected human sera and suggested a restricted response in antibody production to each of these antigens. Purified antibodies from eight ser...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Nathenson G,Litwin SD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (transferase) and galactokinase in several organs from human fetuses 7-28 weeks old was measured by using radioactive substrates and column chromatography for product identification. The specific activity of transferase and galactokinase increased with gestationa...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shin-Buehring YS,Beier T,Tan A,Osang M,Schaub J

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mononuclear cells of newborn infants compared to those of normal adults contain diminished activity of pyruvate kinase (PK) (14.9 +/- 1.2 vs. 22.3 +/- 1.3 mumol/10(10) cells/min) and phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) (195 +/- 10 vs. 415 +/- 19). These deficiencies are accentuated in the cells of premature infants (4.9...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Das M,Klein W,Feig SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental steroid sulfatase deficiency is a genetic disorder only recently reported in the medical literature. Most documented cases of placental sulfatase deficiency have been marked by delay in onset of labor, lack of cervical dilatation, and relative refractoriness of oxytocic agents and amniotomy. We have studied ...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Shapiro LJ,Cousins L,Fluharty AL,Stevens RL,Kihara H

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described in which paper chromatoelectrophoresis is used to measure the bilirubin binding capacity of albumin in serum. It is equivalent to the Sephadex G-25 method and its results are highly reproducible. From a single pool of serum, multiple determinations indicated the mean bilirubin binding capacity...

journal_title：Pediatric research

authors： Ainbender E,Brown EG,Lee YJ,Sweet AY

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00