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Twenty five cattle were infected with T. vivax, 25 with T. congolense, and 25 served as controls. Pathogenic clinical signs of trypanosomal infection were not observed. Secondary bacterial infections were common. Fever, increased heart and respiratory rates, anorexia, and emaciation developed. Elevations in parasitemai and body temperature were positively correlated in the T. vivax group. Infected groups were affected non-uniformly, with some animals in each group remaining asymptomatic and tending to have lower parasitemias. The T. vivax parasitemia was cyclic and the organisms had a genaration time of 7.9 SD 2.5 hours. The first peak of parasitemia in both infections was closely associated with the development of pancytopenia, i.e. anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia. The bone marrow erythroid response in the T. congolense group was significantly greater thn that in either the T. vivax or control groups. Leukopenia was due to concomitant neutropenia and lymphopenia.
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PMID:Experimental bovine trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma vivax and T. congolense). I. Sumptomatology and clinical pathology. 54 98

The values of red and white blood count, of spleen and liver weight were determined in mice of the C3H strain after transplantation of Gardner solid lymphosarcoma contaminated with LDH-virus and after infection of LDH-virus, and compared with those found in normal intact mice. Special attention was devoted to early post-transplantation period and the final stage of tumor growth. The second day after infection of mice with LDH-virus, leukopenia with marked lymphopenia was observed, together with a reduced number of reticulocytes and spleen enlargement. The same changes became more pronounced in tumorous mice on the second posttransplantation day. The changes--with the exception of spleen enlargement--following LDH-virus infection became normalized within the period of the final stage of tumor growth. Contrarily, in mice with tumors in the final stage of the disease besides spleen enlargement also the reduced erythrocyte counts, leukopenia with pronounced lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia were found.
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PMID:Changes in hemopoiesis of mice of the C3H strain following transplantation of Gardner lymphosarcoma and infection with LDH-virus. I. Circulating blood. 58 92

Xenogenic antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) given as a rapid intravenous injection into dogs caused a significant decrease in arterial blood pressure and oxygenation as well as an increase in portal pressure. At the same time, there was an almost complete elimination of lymphocytes and an extensive but almost completely reversible thrombocytopenia. Lymphocytopenia induced by a previous injection of ALG was found to eliminate completely the circulatory response to a second injection of ALG in spite of the fact that an extensive thrombocytopenia was induced. Extensive thrombocytopenia induced by injection of an antiplatelet globulin was also found to prevent completely the hemodynamic effects of ALG although as many lymphocytes were eliminated as in the intact dogs. Thus both platelets and lymphocytes are necessary to trigger the circulatory response induced by ALG.
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PMID:Role of platelets and lymphocytes for the hemodynamic effects of rapidly injected antilymphocyte globulin. 63 Nov 48

Whole-body X-ray treatment was experimentally applied (380 median-line dosage) to eight Merino mutton sheep aged approximately one year. Five of the test animals were lost between 16 and 25 days after irradiation. A great diversity of pathomorphological changes was recorded from organs and tissues, and the most important pathological processes which occurred concomitantly with acute to subacute radiation syndrome of sheep were defective haematopoiesis, septico-toxic processes, haemorrhagic diathesis, and partial epilation. Severe damage to the organs involved in haematopoiesis was one of the primary pathological processes and reflected mainly in lymphopenia, agranulocytosis, and thrombocytopenia, in other words, with lymphopoieses, granulopoiesis, and thrombocytopoiesis particularly involved. Insufficiency of cellular (and humoral) defence would obviously cause germ flooding of the organism, starting from the intestine, and eventually lead to septic intoxication. Haemorrhagic diathesis was found to occur only short of death and is thought to result from thrombocytopenia due to damage to thrombopoiesis as well as from septico-toxic effects upon the blood coagulation and partitioning vascular system. Loss of wool (epilation) was recordable only from neck and shoulder regions, and even there it was on the decline.
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PMID:[Pathomorphology of radiation sickness in sheep following whole body roentgen irradiation]. 72 69

Here are the most important pathomorphological findings recorded from 14 calves or heads of young cattle following whole-body X-ray treatment (170 R and u50 R median-line dosage): 1. Damage was caused to the haematopoietic system, with the most severe effects on granulopoiesis, thrombocytopoiesis, and lymphopoiesis, but less conspicuous lesion of erythropoiesis. 2. Haemorrhagic diathesis developed together with pneumonia in 86 per cent of all cases, manifested in most of them as severe fibrinous pneumonia and pleuropneumonia (in 75 per cent of the cases) and progressing pericarditis. 3. Liver degeneration occurred to all animals, usually in the form of centrobular liver cell necrobiosis (86 per cent), with most of the cases accompanied by diffuse degenerative hepatoparenchymal damage (80 per cent) as well as by granular degeneration of the myocardium and acute fubulonephrosis, the latter two processes obviously developing only short time before death. 4. Catarrhal as well as fibrinous and circumscribed diphtheroid enteritis developed in 43 per cent of all animals, those which had received a median-line dosage of 170 R. 5. Deficiency in supply was recorded, too, with severe damage to the haematopoietic organs being in the focus of the pathological process. That damage actually was the cause of the haematologically established granulocytopenia or agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and lymphopenia. That was the background against which radiation syndrome of calf could be accompanied by activation of latent or subclinical infection of respiratory organs and the development of severe pneumonia as well as by changes in the intestinal flora leading to the outbreak of enteritis. The collapse of cellular defence mechanisms obviously caused intestinal induction of resorption of bacterial toxins and decomposed tissue products, with the pneumonia-damaged lungs being involved. The results eventually were intoxication with haemodynamic disorders, increase in vascular permeability, and degenerative damage to the parenchyma. Haemorrhagic diathesis was the result of thrombocytopenia and, possibly, endotoxic or toxic damage to the coagulation and blood vessel system. Further pathogenetic aspects relating to the radiation syndrome in calf and young cattle are discussed.
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PMID:[Pathomorphology and pathogenesis of radiation sickness in calves and young cattle following whole body roentgen irradiation]. 72 76

Twenty-two patients with cutaneous metastases of malignant melanoma were treated with intralesional injections of the methanol extraction residue of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (MER). The local reaction consisted of erythema and pustule formation followed by ulceration and tumor necrosis. Side effects included fever, chills, headache and malaise in the majority of patients; nausea, vomiting, cyanosis and hypotension occurred infrequently. Hypersensitivity reactions were not observed. Temporary abnormalities in liver function were seen in 11 of 19 patients tested. Reversible lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia developed in 7 of 17 and 7 of 18 patients, respectively. Immune function, as measured by skin tests for delayed hypersensitivity and the in vitro response of isolated lymphocytes to mitogens and microbial antigens, was not influenced by treatment with MER. Transient increases were observed in total hemolytic complement, complement components and the reduction of nitroblue-tetrazolium by neutrophils. Eight of eighteen evaluable patients showed a complete disappearance of all injected lesions. We conclude that intratumoral injection of MER is effective treatment for cutaneous metastases of malignant melanoma, with a complete response rate comparable to that observed after intralesional injection of BCG.
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PMID:Intralesional injection of the methanol extraction residue of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (MER) into cutaneous metastases of malignant melanoma. 72 66

Postirradiation changes were investigated in 58 days old chicken that had been exposed, in an open experimental gamma field, to a continuous irradiation with Co60 with a flow of 60 R per day for a period of 30 days. Hematological examination was carried out after the total exposure to 600 R, 780 R, 1020 R, 1500 R, and 1800 R. More pronounced changes were recorded in the white blood count and in the number of thrombocytes, whereas no significant changes were found in the number of erythrocytes even after 30 days' irradiation. Leucopenia was found to occur in the case of 780 R and more. A significant lymphopenia occurred only in the case of 600 R and 780 R. Basophils responded more sensitively than did eosinophils. A highly significant thrombocytopenia was ascertained in the case of the total exposure from 780 to 1800 R. Hemorrhage, as a symptom of postirradiation diathesis, was not found.
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PMID:[Effect of gamma radiation on the blood count in chickens]. 82 43

Methyl-CCNU, a compound with marked antitumor activity against the solid Lewis lung tumor in mice, was submitted to a preclinical pharmacologic evaluation. The toxicity of a single iv infusion was tested in 37 beagle dogs and 21 rhesus monkeys. The minimum lethal dose (LD) in dogs was 14 mg/kg and five of six dogs died within 7-10 days after treatment from hematopoietic toxicity with neutropenia, lymphopenia, anemia, and concomitant sepsis. Metaplasia of the intestinal epithelium also occurred. Thrombocytopenia was not observed. Dogs treated with 9.27-1.56 mg/kg exhibited reversible neutropenia and lymphopenia but survived without severe morbidity or histopathologic lesions. In monkeys, interstitial nephritis was the treatment-limiting toxicity and three of six monkeys treated with 45 or 30 mg/kg died, became moribund, or exhibited severe renal histopathologic lesions. One monkey treated with 45 mg/kg had degeneration of the testes. Survivors exhibited reversible toxicity and no histopathologic lesions. Treatment with doses as low as 7.5 mg/kg caused reversible neutropenia, lymphopenia, and anemia. The largest nontoxic dose for a single iv infusion was 3.12 mg/kg (62.40 mg/m2) for the dog and 3.75 mg/kg (45 mg/m2) for the monkey. These and earlier observations showed that methyl-CCNU had approximately one third the toxicity of CCNU. Methyl-CCNU also did not cause the delayed hepatic toxicity which is characteristic of CCNU treatment in the dog.
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PMID:Methyl-CCNU: preclinical toxicologic evaluation of a single iv infusion in dogs and monkeys. 82 19

Antibiotic 1719 administered intravenously to rats in a single dose of 6.0 mg/kg induced a transitory decrease in the number of myelocariocytes on the 2nd-5th day of its use mainly at the account of decreased numbers of lymphoid elements. Simultaneously momentory leucopenia (granulocytopenia) and more stable lymphopenia were observed. When the antibiotic was administered intravenously to dogs in a dose of 0.9 mg/kg 4 times and in a dose of 0.4 mg/kg 40 times, an insignificant decrease in the number of myelocarlocytes was noted. Leucopenia, lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia in the peripheral blood almost completely disappeared after discontinuation of the preparation administration. Leucocytosis (granulocytosis), lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia were registered in the dogs and rabbits treated with the antibiotic in doses of 1.5 and 3.0 mg/kg 3 and 11 times respectively. When the antibiotic was added to the rabbit blood serum in concentrations of 0.5-5 gamma/ml, 70 to 80 per cent of the preparation bound with the blood proteins. After a single intravenous administration of antibiotic 1719 to rabbits in doses of 10 and 15 mg/kg, it was detected in the blood only for 5 to 15 minutes after the administration in concentrations not exceeding 0.3 and 0.5 gamma/ml. The antibiotic penetrated into all organs in small amounts and persisted there for 1.5 to 3 hours after the administration. The antibiotic was excreted with the bile in amounts of 0.3-0.5 per cent of the dose administered for 1 to 2 hours after a single administration. The antibiotic was excreted with the urine for 3-4 hours after the administration in amounts of 3.5 per cent after a single administration and 60-72 per cent after multiple administrations.
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PMID:[Action of antibiotic 1719 from a group of diazo compounds on hematopoiesis in laboratory animals and its pharmacokinetics]. 112 24

From 1967 to 1972, 70 patients with aplastic anemia were observed and followed up to death or at least two years. 3 cases of pure red cell anemia, and 2 cases of amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia are included. Detailed investigation of drugs taken within 6 months before onset of the disease revealed chloramphenicol in 20, butazones in 11 cases. Acute viral hepatitis preceded the hemopoietic failure in 2 patients. In addition to various combinations of anemia, granulocytopenia and thrombocytopenia, monocytes were diminished in 35 and lymphocytes in 12 cases. Acid serum or sucrose tests were consistently negative. The patients were treated by short-term prednisone, long-term androgens and red cell and platelet substitution as needed. 2 years after onset of the disease, 33 per cent were in partial or complete remission, 30 per cent survived without remission, and 35 per cent had decreased. Correlation of various parameters with remission and survival showed the presence of a subgroup at risque, comprising patients with low marrow cellularity and clinically relevant diminution of all three cell lines at the time of diagnosis. Absolute lymphopenia and increase of plasma cells in the bone marrow were of poor prognostic significance. In this subgroup two years after the onset of the disease only 32 percent survivors and 16 per cent remissions were recorded. There was no conclusive evidence for the therapeutic value of prednisone or androgens in our series. The present situation in severe aplastic anemia requires more effective forms of treatment and justifies experimental therapies like bone marrow transplantation.
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PMID:[Course and prognosis of panmyelopathy and isolated aplastic anemia. Retrospective study in 70 patients]. 112 32


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