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A patient who developed chronic salicylism associated with salicylate therapy for treatment of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is described, and the clinical presentation and treatment of chronic salicylism are reviewed. A 5 1/2-year-old boy was receiving aspirin 150/mg/kg/day for treatment of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. While on salicylate therapy, the patient developed tachypnea and became increasingly hyperthermic, lethargic, and disoriented. The patient developed a maculopapular rash, weakness, and a decreased level of consciousness during the 11 days before admission to the hospital. Physical examination and laboratory determinations revealed that the patient had hypoprothrombinemia, hypoglycemia, and severe hepatic encephalopathy secondary to long-term salicylate toxicity. The patient was treated for hypoglycemia, electrolyte imbalances, thrombocytopenia, and anemia and was discharged after 24 days. Diagnosing chronic salicylism with hepatic dysfunction was difficult because the symptoms are similar to those of stage I to stage II Reye's syndrome. Liver enzymes, including aspartate aminotransferase (also called SGOT), alanine aminotransferase (also called SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, and lactate dehydrogenase, may be elevated in juvenile arthritis patients with hepatic dysfunction. Liver dysfunction usually improves when salicylate therapy is discontinued. Supportive therapy should always be used in symptomatic patients. Children on long-term, high-dose salicylate therapy should be monitored closely, and baseline liver function tests should be performed. The clinical effectiveness of administering sodium bicarbonate in attempts to alkalinize urine and increase salicylate elimination is controversial. In patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who develop chronic salicylism, careful analysis of the patient's medication history, laboratory values, and clinical presentation are necessary to rule out Reye's syndrome.
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PMID:Chronic salicylism in a patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. 370 82

The metabolic effects of ethanol are due to a direct action of ethanol or its metabolites, changes in the redox state occurring during its metabolism, and modifications of the effects of ethanol by nutritional factors. Ethanol causes hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia depending on whether glycogen stores are adequate, inhibits protein synthesis, and results in fatty liver and in elevations in serum triglyceride levels. Increases in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol after ethanol ingestion may explain the lower risk of myocardial infarction and death from coronary disease after moderate drinking. Increases in serum lactate, resulting from the increased NADH/NAD+ ratio, and hyperuricemia, most likely the result of increased turnover of adenine nucleotides, are common transient effects of ethanol ingestion. Causes of vitamin deficiencies in alcoholism are decreased dietary intake, decreased intestinal absorption, and alterations in vitamin metabolism. Ethanol decreases thiamine absorption and decreases the enterohepatic circulation of folate. Acetaldehyde increases the degradation of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate by displacing it from its binding protein and making it susceptible to hydrolysis by membrane-bound alkaline phosphatase. Ethanol decreases hepatic vitamin A concentration and its conversion to active retinal, and modifies renal metabolism of vitamin D.
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PMID:Metabolic effects of alcohol. 388 Dec 85

Exposure of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium lamarrei (H. Milne Edwards) to a lethal dose (96-hr LC50;0.78 mg/l) of dichlorvos for 24, 48, 72, and 96 hr induced inhibition in acetylcholinesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities and enhanced acid phosphatase activity. Hepatic glycogen values were depleted while the blood glucose level was increased up to 72 hr of exposure. After 96 hr of dichlorvos exposure hypoglycemia was recorded. The possible role of these changes in the dichlorvos intoxication is discussed.
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PMID:Nature of dichlorvos intoxication in a freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium lamarrei (H. Milne Edwards). 401 89

The animals examined were 30 sows after eleven or more farrowings (pluriparous sows) and 26 primiparous sows. The pluriparous animals were 75.1 months old on the average and had farrowed an average of 13.23 litters. The mean age of the primiparous sows was 12.8 months. The blood sera of pluriparous sows had higher concentrations of total protein and urea and lower levels of 11-hydroxycorticosteroids (11-OHCS) and lower aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and alkaline phosphatase activities than those of primiparous sows. The pluriparous sows showed mild hypoglycaemia and hypocholesterolaemia. When insulin was injected i.m. in the dose of 1 I.U. per kg body mass, a decrease in blood serum glucose, total protein and potassium levels was recorded 60 min later in both pluriparous and primiparous sows; a significant rise in 11-OHCS concentration occurred only in the primiparous sows. It was concluded that the response of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in pluriparous sows to an insulin load is reduced. Studies of pluriparous sows contribute to a better understanding of the ontogenetic development of pigs throughout their postnatal development.
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PMID:Biochemical changes in sows after eleven or more farrowings. 670 30

The consequences of drinking six pints of beer (3.31) over three hours were investigated in six healthy men. The expected rise in plasma osmolality, fall in plasma vasopressin concentration, and increase in free water clearance occurred; these variables had returned to normal by nine hours. There was a small but significant fall in plasma concentrations of urea and creatinine accompanied by a rise in plasma potassium concentration. Serum activities of alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transferase, creatinine kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase did not change, and there was no alcohol-induced hypoglycaemia. All subjects had a slight hangover, but none was fluid depleted. It is concluded that, apart from inducing changes in water balance, alcohol in this form causes remarkably little metabolic disturbance.
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PMID:Acute biochemical responses to moderate beer drinking. 681 64

The function of the pituitary-adrenal axis and leukocyte alkaline phosphatase activity were evaluated in eight patients with sickle cell disease during a painful crisis and when crisis-free. The leukocyte alkaline phosphatase (LAP) score did not increase during crisis; the scores were in the low-normal range during crisis and noncrisis periods. Insulin-induced hypoglycemia produced normal growth hormone responses during both crisis and crisis-free periods. Plasma cortisol concentrations were diminished in the crisis group. Also impaired was 11-deoxycortisol production in both groups after metyrapone. These findings indicate that a mild defect in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis exists in sickle cell disease patients.
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PMID:Pituitary-adrenal axis function in sickle cell anemia and its relationship to leukocyte alkaline phosphatase. 701 Oct 1

The pharmacokinetics and toxicity of intravenous lonidamine were investigated in dogs receiving four cycles of lonidamine (400 or 800 mg/m2) +/- whole-body hyperthermia (WBH). Clearance and volume of distribution in dogs receiving lonidamine during WBH increased 1.6-2.3 and 1.9-3.5-fold respectively, relative to dogs receiving lonidamine under euthermic conditions (p < 0.02). In dogs receiving lonidamine under euthermic conditions or 400 mg/m2 + WBH, the area under the lonidamine concentration versus time curve (AUC) measured during the fourth treatment was 21-58% lower than the first treatment AUC. However, in dogs receiving 800 mg/m2 + WBH, the fourth treatment AUC was four-fold higher than the first treatment AUC (p < 0.02). This suggests repeated exposure to 800 mg/m2 lonidamine and WBH impairs lonidamine metabolism. Weakness, hypoglycaemia, and elevations in amylase, alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin were more severe or occurred exclusively in dogs receiving 800 mg/m2 + WBH. Since these changes were attributable to marked AUC increases, which occurred secondary to repeated exposure to 800 mg/m2 lonidamine during WBH, 400 mg/m2 was identified as the maximum tolerable dose to be administered intravenously to dogs during WBH.
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PMID:Effect of whole-body hyperthermia on the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of lonidamine in dogs. 759 7

The metabolic response of the tumour-bearing host to methotrexate (MTX) therapy was investigated with particular attention to effects resulting from MTX-induced anorexia. Biochemical changes in female Dark Agouti rats bearing mammary adenocarcinomas and treated with MTX (0.5 mg/kg, 2 i.m. injections, 24 h apart) were compared with untreated (CON) tumour-bearing rats, and tumour-bearing rats pair-fed (PF) to the MTX group. MTX treatment halted progression of the tumour (tumour 6% of bodyweight) while the tumour burden doubled in the CON and PF groups. A number of biochemical and haematological changes were specific to MTX treatment and did not result from decreased food intake. MTX treatment was associated with significantly decreased plasma calcium, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase and the total white cell count. Decreases in plasma albumin and total protein concentrations were observed in both MTX and PF rats. Other parameters commonly used to assess renal and liver function were not significantly affected by MTX. MTX reversed the hypoglycaemia, hyperketonaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia induced by tumour-bearing. In contrast, PF rats had an even more pronounced hypoglycaemia and hyperketonaemia than the CON rats. Measurement of glucose uptake in vivo with 2-deoxy[U-14C]-glucose showed that MTX treatment halved the glucose requirement of the tumour (8.2% of bodyweight compared to 12.2% in the control). It is concluded that the potentially adverse effects of MTX treatment on host metabolism are outweighed by the beneficial effects of a reduced metabolic demand resulting from inhibition of tumour progression.
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PMID:Metabolic consequences of methotrexate therapy in tumour-bearing rats. 815 87

Five Holstein Friesian calves varying in age from 7 to 9 weeks old, were suspected of suffering from an inherited granulocytopathy known as bovine leucocyte adhesion deficiency (BLAD). Four of them were examined clinically and at necropsy. The most significant clinical findings were fever, depression, weakness, emaciation, diarrhoea, pseudomembranous gingivitis, loose teeth, respiratory infection and occult blood in the faeces. Significant clinicopathological findings were marked leucocytosis, mainly due to a neutrophilia, hypoalbuminemia, hypogammaglobulinemia, increased alpha- and beta-globulins, elevated alkaline phosphatase enzyme activity, hypoglycaemia, and decreased blood urea concentrations. The necropsy revealed emaciated carcasses, granulomatous to necrotising gingivitis, pseudomembranous to necrotising enteritis with perforations, bronchopneumonia, splenic atrophy, and hypoplasia of the thymus. Histopathological examination supported the macroscopic findings.
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PMID:[Suspected inherited granulocytopathy in four Holstein Friesian calves]. 817 99

The cases of fetal intrauterine hypotrophy syndrome were subjected to rest, dietetic and pharmacological treatment which included intravenous infusions of low molecular Dekstrane, intramuscular injections of Synacthen-Depot, Sadamine and Partusisten. The clear improvement of selected parameters of placenta efficiency during the management was observed. It included: mean increase of blood serum oxytocinase activity about 2.1 U, mean increase of quantity of estrogens excreted in 24-hour urine about 4.1 mg/24 hours, mean decrease of term-stabile alkaline phosphatase activity in blood serum about 16 U. The comparison of the state of hypotrophic newborns found in the group with hypotrophy treated during the course of pregnancy with the group of untreated hypotrophy permits to conclude: statistically significant more rarefied occurrence of newborns of low values according to Apgar scale, hypoglycemia, acidosis, anemia as well as respiratory distress syndrome and five-fold diminished perinatal mortality. It was demonstrated a clear correlation between many parameters of structure and activity of oxygenizing enzymes of placentae existed between the group with treated and untreated hypotrophy.
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PMID:[Microstructure of placenta and activity of some respiratory enzymes --in pregnancy with treated and untreated fetal intrauterine hypotrophy syndrome]. 835 45


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