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In a series of 100 adult patients with definite rheumatoid arthritis of at most 3 years' duration and with no previous penicillamine, gold or systemic corticosteroid treatment, 50 patients were treated with D-penicillamine and 50 with gold for one yar. The dose of penicillamine was 600 mg daily. Sodium aurothiomalate was given 50 mg weekly up to a total of 13 mg/kg and thereafter 50 mg once a month. In both treatment groups a statistically significant decrease in the number of painful and/or swollen joints, an increase in haemoglobin and a decrease in ESR, serum ceruloplasmin-, alpha1-acid glycoprotein-, IgG-, IgM- and IgA levels was observed. All the changes in these clinical and laboratory tests were of the same degree in both treatment groups. In the penicillamine group 12 out of 20 seropositive patients became seronegative and in another 5 the Waaler-Rose titre dropped clearly. In the gold group, 7 out of 16 seropositive patients became seronegative, and the Waaler-Rose titre dropped in another 5. An equal increase in the number of eroded joints in hands and toes was seen in the penicillamine and the gold group. Penicillamine was discontinued because of side effects in 13 patients (26%), and gold treatment in 15 (30%). Proteinuria and/or haematuria were the most common causes of discontinuation in the penicillamine group.
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PMID:Comparison of penicillamine and gold treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis. 10 90

Data are presented on several polymorphic genetic markers in 200 Greek gypsies. Polymorphic loci studied were: the ABO, MN, Rhesus, Kell and Duffy blood groups, hemoglobin, and ceruloplasmin. A survey for congenital malformations and hereditary diseases was also carried out on this group. The ABO, Rhesus, MN and Duffy system frequencies varied significantly from the figures obtained for the Greek population. However, there is a characteristic similarity between various gypsy groups studied in other nations and the distribution of polymorphic traits in the Punjab region of India. Cystic fibrosis, renal tubular acidosis, 21-hydroxylase deficiency, Hoty-Oram syndrome and homozygous beta-thalassemia were diagnosed within the gypsy group studied.
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PMID:Genetic structure of the Greek gypsies. 10 65

Squirrel monkeys were inoculated by the intratracheal inoculation of 700 Klebsiella pneumoniae organisms and developed lobar pneumonia in about 24 h. Characteristic clinical findings were fever, anorexia, and coughing. Laboratory findings included leukocytosis or leukopenia (with the latter more prominent in ultimately fatal infections), bacteremia, and shedding of bacteria into the pharynx. Infected monkeys showed increased plasma lysozyme activity as well as increased plasma ceruloplasmin, haptoglobin and alpha1-antitrypsin. The mortality rate was 60%, and the mean time of death was 50.5 h. Pathologically, the disease spread by means of Kohn's pores and other pathways that generally did not involve airways as a means of dissemination until about 30 h. Squirrel monkeys seem to be better models for human respiratory K. pneumoniae infection than rats or mice.
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PMID:Nonhuman primate model for the study of respiratory Klebsiella pneumoniae infection. 10 26

Human liver-specific gene products are expressed by hybrid cells resulting from the fusion of human amniocytes with mouse hepatoma cells. Amniocytes grown from human amniotic fluid have no detectable levels of secreted human albumin, transferrin, alpha-1 antitrypsin, or ceruloplasmin, while the mouse hepatoma line, HH--, secretes several mouse liver-specific gene products including transferrin and albumin. Fifty-five hybrids were isolated and analyzed for the expression of serum proteins by Ouchterlony double diffusion and Laurell immunoelectrophoresis. All hybrids continued to express mouse albumin and transferrin, and 29 hybrids from this series were found to express one or more human serum proteins. Activation of the human amniocyte genome provides a model for prenatal diagnosis of serum protein abnormalities.
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PMID:Expression of human hepatic genes in mouse hepatoma--human amniocyte hybrids. 10 1

Venous blood samples were obtained from 42 children hospitalized for the recurrent episode of scarlet fever: immediately after admission and toward the end of one week's hospitalisation, after a three-week period and at a later control after four months. The 14 specific proteins were simultaneously quantitated in the serum specimens using radial immunodiffusion on antibodyagar plates. Antistreptolysin O titres were also determined and compared with the corresponding immunoglobulin levels. However, the titres showed only minor differences in various stages of illness the course of which was mild and without complications. Serum levels of prealbumin, albumin, alpha2HS-glycoproetin, transferrin and beta 2-glycoprotein I were found decreased at the acute clinical stage. Of the "negative acute phase reactants" prealbumin proved to be the most expressive one. Of a triad of "positive reactants" the largest relative increments showed haptoglobin, its increase was twofold of orosomucoid and that threefold of ceruloplasmin. C-reactive protein was increased almost in two thirds of patients on admission, but normalized in all cases about the end of the first week of penicillin therapy. No significant changes were found for alpha 2-macroglobulin. We could demonstrate significant rise and fall of IgD concentration in serum together with IgG, IgA, and IgM, all manifested the peak values already after one week's hospitalisation. In the recurrent episode of scarlet fever IgA showed significantly minor increments compared with the first illness.
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PMID:Profiles of fourteen specific serum proteins in children with recurrent scarlet fever. 11 13

The effect of clofibrate (1.5 g/day) on different plasma proteins and on components of the hemostatic system was studied in eight men with either mild diabetes mellitus or cardiosclerosis. Before treatment, the subjects were investigated weekly on five occasions. The means of these determinations were compared with the values observed after 2, 6 and 14 weeks of treatment. During the treatment albumin and transferrin increased significantly while orosomucoid, ceruloplasmin, beta1 E-globulin, IgA, IgM and fibrinogen decreased significantly. The decreases of the last proteins in per cent were found to be associated with each other in single subjects, i.e. a subject who reacted with a certain degree of change in one protein tended to react in a similar way with regard to the other proteins. A correlation was observed between the concentration before the treatment and the decrease in concentration during the treatment for ceruloplasmin, IgG, IgA, IgM and fibrinogen. The fibrinolytic activity increased significantly. Plasminogen decreased after 6 weeks and increased after 14 weeks of treatment. Platelet adhesiveness was not influenced.
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PMID:Effect of clofibrate on plasma proteins including components of the hemostatic mechanism. 13 Oct 8

The laboratory investigation of cases of Paget's disease has revealed results of three types :--small increases in the sedimentation rate, in the ceruloplasmin level, in the average corpuscule volume, and in uricaemia. These changes are of little practical value;--a considerable increase in the common stocks and in the turn-over of calcium, a frequently negative assessment with a parathyroid hormone level at the lower limit of normality. The levels of calcaemia and calciuria, little changed on average, may increase slightly after hospitalization. The use of these parameters is valuable but they are sometimes difficult to interpret;--an increase in the levels of alkaline phosphatases and of urinary hydroxyproline, in relation to the extent and the activity of the disease, and also of certain parameters of calcium-45 and of quantitative histology. A statistical study of the spontaneous evolution of hydroxyprolinuria in 50 patients with Paget's disease who were not treated for less than 3 years, allowed the authors to establish in what conditions a change induced by calcitonin or mithramycin is significant.
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PMID:[Biological exploration of Paget's disease]. 13 66

Severe hypo-albuminemia associated with a decrease in P.B.I., gamma-globulins and plasmatic ceruloplasmin occurred in a 2 1/2 year old girl with chronic pericarditis since the age of 8 months. This was related to a protein-losing enteropathy which was confirmed by histological examination. Venous hypertension, secondary to the chronic pericarditis may explain the enteropathy.
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PMID:[Protein-losing enteropathy during chronic liquid pericarditis]. 13 24

Six hours after the administration of demecolcine (0.3 mg/100 g b.w.), a decrease in the ceruloplasmin level was recorded in rat serum. The time course of the decrease in the rat serum ceruloplasmin concentration after the same dose of colchicine was then studied. After two to three hours, the serum ceruloplasmin concentration fell significantly in both male and female rats. Eight hours after the administration of colchicine, the serum ceruloplasmin level began to rise again in female rats, but not in male rats. Mortality among females was lower than among males.
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PMID:Effect of colchicine and demecolcine on the serum ceruloplasmin level in rats. 13 24

Male rats were given oestradiol benzoate (1 mg as an aquaeous microcrystal suspension i.m. twice a week), testosterone isobutyrate (0.5 mg as an aquaeous microcrystal suspension i.m. once a week) and dried thyroid (Thyreoidin SPOFA, 0.2% in food), alone or variously combined. Oestradiol raised adenohypophyseal weight, the binding capacity of the adenohypophyseal proteins for thyroxine and the serum ceruloplasmin level. Testosterone and Thyreoidin inhibited all three of these reactions, but when they were administered together there was no summation of their inhibitory action. The nature of the relationships between the three given proteosynthetic reactions is discussed.
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PMID:Effect of interaction of oestrogen, testosterone and thyroid hormones on the serum ceruloplasmin level in rats. 14 Mar 85


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