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The structure and functions of platelets from a patient in whom albinism and hemorrhagic diathesis were associated have been investigated. Electron microscope studies showed a large reduction in the number of dense bodies and this was confirmed by an examination of fluorescent platelets loaded with mepacrine. The rare dense bodies were much bigger than normally observed; their density was diminished and was localized in a peripheral ring. Other platelet constituents were found to be normal. Platelet peroxidase activity was normal in the canaliculi of the dense tubular system; catalase-positive granules were also present. Serotonin uptake by the patient's platelets was much decreased and reserpine, a potent inhibitor of serotonin accumulation by normal human platelets, did not further decrease this incorporation. The uptake of free 14 C-arachidonic acid by the platelets was greatly diminished, as was its thrombin-induced liberation from phosphatidyl-choline and phosphatidyl inositol. Moreover, platelet phospholipase A1 activity was much reduced and phospholipase A2 activity was undetectable.
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PMID:Studies on a new variant of the Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome: qualitative, ultrastructural, and functional abnormalities of the platelet-dense bodies associated with a phospholipase A defect. 71 98

Specimens obtained at autopsy from six neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections were examined microscopically, electron microscopically, and immunohistochemically. Coagulative necrosis with inclusions was found in the livers and adrenal glands in all cases, as well as in various other organs, including the spleen, bone marrow, lungs, esophagus, tongue, and thymus, in some cases. Distinct hemorrhagic diathesis was found in three cases. No characteristic clinical findings, such as skin rashes or elevated titers of the antibody to HSV, were found, and clinical diagnosis was therefore difficult. In three cases isolation and typing of the causative virus were performed virologically, and type 1 HSV (HSV-1) was identified as the causative virus. Immunohistochemically, the type and distribution of the virus were evaluated in all cases with type-specific antisera to types 1 and 2 (HSV-2) antigens by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method. In five cases the infections were found to be due to HSV-1 and in only one case to HSV-2. In the placenta in one case of HSV-2 infection, HSV antigen was demonstrated in the chorionic villi. Electron microscopic study confirmed the existence of viral particles in the placenta in that case and, thus, the possibility of a transplacental route of infection.
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PMID:Herpes simplex viral infection in human neonates: an immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study. 299 17

We report a 24-year-old woman who had acute monoblastic leukemia associated with t(16;21) (p11;q22). She was referred to our hospital in April 1992 because of high fever and hemorrhagic diathesis. Physical examination on admission showed no hepatosplenomegaly. The hemoglobin was 5.1g/dl, platelet count 1.7 x 10(4)/microliters, the white blood cell count 18,700/microliters. Bone marrow aspirate showed that 86% of nucleated cells were monoblasts which were positive for peroxidase and alpha-naphtyl butyrate esterase. She was diagnosed as having M5a. Dysmegakaryopoiesis, such as micromegakaryocytes and megakaryocytes with multiple small separated nuclei, was seen in the bone marrow. Chromosomal analysis revealed t(16;21). Complete remission was achieved after two courses of BHAC-DMP therapy, but dysmegakaryopoietic features remained. She relapsed in September 1992. Review of the literature and this patient indicate that acute nonlymphocytic leukemia with t(16;21) is associated with multilineage leukemic differentiation.
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PMID:[Acute monoblastic leukemia (M5a) with dysmegakaryocytopoiesis associated with t(16;21) (p11;q22)]. 813 14